The annunciation
(2013)

Fiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : DCA, Inc. : Made available through hoopla, 2013
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9781940941172 (electronic bk.) MWT11582814, 1940941172 (electronic bk.) 11582814
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

At the heart of Ellen Gilchrist's novel is the incorrigible Amanda McCamey. Leaving a troubled past behind, she marries into New Orleans' high society but finds the privileged world stifling and unsatisfying. Seeking a quieter, more meaningful life, she divorces and moves to the Ozarks where she translates poetry and surrounds herself with artists and intellectuals. Her friend Katie, a brilliant sculptor, brings out the wild child in Amanda, but it is Will, an intense young musician, who captivates her. What begins as a sexual tryst quickly becomes a grand and impossible passion that mirrors the life of the eighteenth-century French poet whose work Amanda is translating. But her new life is interrupted when her past comes back to haunt her. With beauty, humor, and luminescent prose, Gilchrist paints an evocative portrait of a woman finally coming into her own

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