Barbara Gowdy
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From the author of The White Bone, a piercing novel of passionate attachment and of the fear and freedom of letting go.
Louise Kirk learns about love and loss at an early age. When she is nine years old, her former beauty queen mother disappears, leaving a note that reads only, and incorrectly, Louise knows how to work the washing machine. Soon after, the Richters and their adopted son, Abel, move in across the street. Louise's immediate devotion...
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Thunderstorms are rolling across the summer sky. Every time one breaks, Rose Bowan loses consciousness and has vivid, realistic dreams about being in another woman's body. Is Rose merely dreaming? Or is she, in fact, inhabiting a stranger? Disturbed yet entranced, she sets out to discover what is happening to her, leaving the cocoon of her family's small repertory cinema for the larger, upended world of someone wildly different from herself. Meanwhile...
Series
Film Movement volume 2, film 10
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A story of three sisters coming of age in a wildly dysfunctional family in the 1960s.