Elizabeth McCracken
Author
Language
English
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Description
A taut, bighearted new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken about a daughter's relationship with her larger-than-life mother-and all that is left behind as one generation moves to the next
Over the course of one weekend in London, a woman, "trying to decide what I thought about my life," winds up wrestling with the memory of her mother. Her mother-who had also loved to visit London--died ten months earlier, but her...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
184 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. But suddenly she fell in love, got married, and two years ago was living in a remote part of France, working on her novel, and waiting for the birth of her first child.
This book is about what happened next. In her ninth month of pregnancy, she learned that her baby boy had died. How do you deal with and recover from this kind...
5) Bleak House
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 67
Language
English
Description
Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed. Bleak House defies a single description. It...