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In 1908, Mamie Garrahan faces childbirth aided by her arsenic-eating sister-in-law Kitty, a nun who grows opium poppies, and a doctor who prescribes Bayer Heroin. "In the twentieth century, I believe there are no saints left," Mamie remarks. But her daughters and granddaughter test this notion with far-reaching consequences. Kitty's arsenic reappears sixty years later in the hands of her distraught niece. A schoolgirl's passion for the Beatles and Melville a passion both lonely and funny shapes her life. Each decade is illuminated by endearingly eccentric characters: an anorexic waitress falls for a wealthy college boy in the jazz age...an exuberant young nurse questions science during the Depression...a homely seamstress designs a scandalous dress in the 1950s. The Nightingales of Troy, the first fiction collection by an acclaimed American poet, creates a vividly palpable sense of time and place. Alice Fulton's memorable characters confront the deepest dilemmas with bravery and abiding love."

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• Celý názov: Nightingales of Troy
• Autor: Alice Fulton
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Brožovaná
• Počet strán: 256
• EAN: 9780393335446
• ID: 04604646
• Nakladateľ: WW Norton & Co
• Hmotnosť: 210 g
• Rozmery: 210 × 139 × 17 mm
• Dátum vydania: 13. July 2009

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