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Sweeney, Aoibheann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143113410 ISBN 13: 9780143113416

Publisher: Penguin USA, 2008

Synopsis

Critically acclaimed by reviewers across the country, Aoibheann Sweeney's beautifully written debut novel is a story of the profound human need for intimacy. For Miranda, the adolescence spent in her fog-shrouded Maine home has been stark and isolated? alone with her troubled father, a man consumed with his work translating Ovid's Metamorphoses, her mother mysteriously gone from their lives. Now, having graduated from high school, Miranda's father arranges for her to stay with old friends in Manhattan, and she embarks on a journey that will open up her father's past?and her own world?in ways she cannot begin to imagine.

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Review:

a A magical, wonderful novel that is Shakespeare and Ovid, Wharton and Altman . . . [Her] authentic voice takes us back to our unborn selves.a
aAndrA(c) Aciman, author of "Call Me by Your Name"
a A terrific debut novel . . . you wonat regret sinking into this book.a
a"The Cleveland Plain Dealer"
a Remarkable for its poise and restraint, this first novel unleashes a sharp and wholly original new voice.a
aJennifer Egan, author of "The Keep"

A magical, wonderful novel that is Shakespeare and Ovid, Wharton and Altman . . . [Her] authentic voice takes us back to our unborn selves.
Andr Aciman, author of "Call Me by Your Name"
A terrific debut novel . . . you won t regret sinking into this book.
"The Cleveland Plain Dealer"
Remarkable for its poise and restraint, this first novel unleashes a sharp and wholly original new voice.
Jennifer Egan, author of "The Keep"

? A magical, wonderful novel that is Shakespeare and Ovid, Wharton and Altman . . . [Her] authentic voice takes us back to our unborn selves.?
?Andr? Aciman, author of "Call Me by Your Name"

? A terrific debut novel . . . you won?t regret sinking into this book.?
?"The Cleveland Plain Dealer"

? Remarkable for its poise and restraint, this first novel unleashes a sharp and wholly original new voice.?
?Jennifer Egan, author of "The Keep"

About the Author:

Aoibheann Sweeney (pronounced /EVEN/ ) was a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia. She has written book reviews for The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, and the Village Voice Literary Supplement. She is currently director of the Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin USA
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0143113410
• ISBN 13: 9780143113416
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272