The House on Coliseum Street: A Novel - Brossura

Grau, Shirley Ann

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0807121010 ISBN 13: 9780807121016

Casa editrice: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1996

Riassunto

Twenty-year-old Joan Mitchell has lived her entire life in the stately New Orleans house on Coliseum Street, where her mother and half sister have steadily undermined her self-regard. To Joan, her fate seems sealed and strangely inconsequential. Then a brief affair with Michael Kern, a man she knows to be a cad but is drawn to anyway, unfurls for her a surreal sequence of events -- pregnancy, an abortion, and eventually withdrawal into a numbed existence. Only a growing obsession with Michael and a yearning to fill her cavernous loneliness spur Joan to any premeditated action. An intricate psychological novel that plumbs the pain and rage born of identity and volition suppressed, The House on Coliseum Street is an arresting, somber story that transcends period and place even as it so immediately evokes New Orleans in the late 1950s.

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L'autore:

Shirley Ann Grau is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Keepers of the House, four other novels, and three story collections. She lives in New Orleans.

Product Description:

Joan Mitchell is 21 and has lived the stately New Orleans house on Coliseum Street all her life. Her mother and half-sister have steadily undermined her self-regard, and to Joan, her fate seems sealed and strangely inconsequential. Then a brief affair changes her life forever.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0807121010
• ISBN 13: 9780807121016
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 242