Frances and Bernard - Brossura

Bauer, Carlene

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0544105176 ISBN 13: 9780544105171

Casa editrice: Mariner Books, 2014

Riassunto

Frances and Bernard meet in the summer of 1957. Afterward, he writes her a letter. Soon they are immersed in the kind of fast, deep friendship that can change the course of our lives.

They find their way to New York and, for a few whirling years, each other. The city is a wonderland for young people with dreams: cramped West Village kitchens, parties stocked with the sharp-witted and glamorous, taxis that can take you anywhere at all, long talks along the Hudson as the lights of the Empire State Building blink on above.

Inspired by the lives of Flannery O’Connor and Robert Lowell, Frances and Bernard imagines, through new characters with charms entirely their own, what else might have happened. In the grandness of the fall, can we love another person so completely that we lose our dreams?

In witness to all the wonder of kindred spirits and bittersweet romance, Frances and Bernard is a tribute to the power of friendship and the people who help us discover who we are.

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Praise for Frances and Bernard "Well-written, engrossing... funny, sweet and sad. A lovely surprise." —Publishers Weekly, starred review 

"In the late 1950s, over the course of one long lunch at a writer’s workshop, Frances and Bernard begin a journey of love and loss.... Bauer captures their affair in a series of erudite letters, some of which are exchanged between the two rich and somewhat eccentric protagonists. This remarkable method of storytelling provides snapshots of the events that shape the story. VERDICT: This book will appeal to readers who enjoying plumbing the depths of the human condition." -- Library Journal

 

"I'll never stop raving about Frances and Bernard. I loved, admired and devoured it; didn't want it to end. What is better than a good novel in letters? A great one. Carlene Bauer has written a book that is dear, brilliant, and unforgettable."—Elinor Lipman, author of Family Man (and many others)

 

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• Editore: Mariner Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0544105176
• ISBN 13: 9780544105171
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 195