After the near death of her mother in a house fire, Avie Goss, a change-of-life baby born nearly a generation after the births of her two siblings, returns to her Southern roots to care for her ailing mother, to try to understand and come to terms with her family's legacy, and to build a new life for herself. A first novel. By the author of Missing Women and Others. Reprint.
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Recensione:
Spence...cleverly parcels out the details of her story, catching both Avie and the reader off guard with each new revelation. (New York Times)
L'autore:
June Spence's stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Southern Review, Seventeen, and The Oxford American. A winner of the Willa Cather Fiction Prize, she lives with her husband, the writer Scott Huler.
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- EditoreRiverhead Books
- Data di pubblicazione2005
- ISBN 10 1594481334
- ISBN 13 9781594481338
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine227
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