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Author : Kate Walbert
Release : 2015-06-09
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 326/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Sunken Cathedral by : Kate Walbert
Download or read book The Sunken Cathedral written by Kate Walbert. This book was released on 2015-06-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of four women as they negotiate one of Manhattan's swiftly changing neighborhoods, extreme weather, and the perils and unease of twenty-first-century life"--
Author : Kate Walbert
Release : 2015-06-09
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 377/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Sunken Cathedral by : Kate Walbert
Download or read book The Sunken Cathedral written by Kate Walbert. This book was released on 2015-06-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the highly acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award nominee, a “funny…beautiful…audacious…masterful” (J. Courtney Sullivan, The Boston Globe) novel about the way memory haunts and shapes the present. Marie and Simone, friends for decades, were once immigrants to the city, survivors of World War II in Europe. Now widows living alone in Chelsea, they remain robust, engaged, and adventurous, even as the vistas from their past interrupt their present. Helen is an art historian who takes a painting class with Marie and Simone. Sid Morris, their instructor, presides over a dusty studio in a tenement slated for condo conversion; he awakes the interest of both Simone and Marie. Elizabeth is Marie’s upstairs tenant, a woman convinced that others have a secret way of being, a confidence and certainty she lacks. She is increasingly unmoored—baffled by her teenage son, her husband, and the roles she is meant to play. In a chorus of voices, Kate Walbert, a “wickedly smart, gorgeous writer” (The New York Times Book Review), explores the growing disconnect between the world of action her characters inhabit and the longings, desires, and doubts they experience. Interweaving long narrative footnotes, Walbert paints portraits of marriage, of friendship, and of love in its many facets, always limning the inner life, the place of deepest yearning and anxiety. The Sunken Cathedral is a stunningly beautiful, profoundly wise novel about the way we live now—“fascinating, moving, and significant” (Ron Charles, The Washington Post).
Author : Kate Walbert
Release : 2009-06-16
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 981/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Short History of Women by : Kate Walbert
Download or read book A Short History of Women written by Kate Walbert. This book was released on 2009-06-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by a suffragist ancestor who starved herself to promote the integration of Cambridge University, Evie refuses to marry and Dorothy defies a ban on photographing the bodies of her dead Iraq War soldier sons, a choice that embarrasses Dorothy's daughters.
Author : Kate Walbert
Release : 2019-06-11
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 407/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis His Favorites by : Kate Walbert
Download or read book His Favorites written by Kate Walbert. This book was released on 2019-06-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “tense, taut, and thrilling” (Marie Claire) novel about a teenage girl, a predatory teacher, and a school’s complicity from the highly acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award finalist and author of A Short History of Women—“riveting, terrifying, exactly the book for our times” (Ann Patchett). They were on a lark, three teenaged girls speeding across the greens at night on a “borrowed” golf cart, drunk. The cart crashes and one of the girls lands violently in the rough, killed instantly. The driver, Jo, flees the hometown that has turned against her and enrolls at a prestigious boarding school. Her past weighs on her. She is responsible for the death of her best friend. She has tipped her parents’ rocky marriage into demise. She is ready to begin again, far away from the accident. “Devastatingly relevant” (Vogue) and “fueled by gorgeous writing” (NPR), His Favorites reveals the interior life of a young woman determined to navigate the treachery in a new world. Told from her perspective many years later, the story coolly describes a series of shattering events and a school that failed to protect her. “Before things turn treacherous, there’s a moment when predation can feel dangerously like kindness…Walbert understands this…His Favorites begs to be read” (Time).
Author : Charlotte Wood
Release : 2004
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 642/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Submerged Cathedral by : Charlotte Wood
Download or read book The Submerged Cathedral written by Charlotte Wood. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. The Submerged Cathedral is a superb, enthralling novel of love, tragedy and atonement from the acclaimed author of The Children. 'Set me as a seal on your heart, for love is stronger than death.' Spanning many years, travelling across Australia's vast continent and through some of Europe's great cities, The Submerged Cathedral is a beguiling, heartbreaking story of paradise and the fall, of sacrifice and atonement, and of sisterly love and rivalry. Most of all, however, it is about an enduring and sacred love- a love stronger than death- and the journeys undertaken in its name. Written in spare, haunting prose, this novel is a work of the highest literary merit, as well as a timeless love story that will enthrall readers. The release of Charlotte Wood's acclaimed first novel, Pieces of a Girl, marked her as a young writer of great promise; The Submerged Cathedral thrillingly confirms that promise with astonishing assurance and lyricism.
