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Luisa Montcrief was once a great opera singer. Now she is a drunken diva forced onto the streets of Chicago. Madeline is a homeless woman who believes the Virgin Mary lives in a wall in the carpark beneath a plush Chicago hotel. Mara is a troubled young woman whose mother abandoned her at birth. The three women converge on the car park to battle with the hotel for their right to live and worship there. Then when Starr appears, enigmatic, repellent to some, erotic to others, miracles start to happen and the city is quite unprepared for the outcome . . .
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Sara Paretsky lives in Chicago with her husband. She is the author of the V. I. Warshawski novels, all published by Hamish Hamilton and Penguin: INDEMNITY ONLY (1987), DEADLOCK (1987), KILLING ORDERS (1987), BITTER MEDICINE (1988), TOXIC SHOCK (1990), GUARDIAN ANGEL (1992), TUNNEL VISION (1995), V. I. FOR SHORT (1996).
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Three very different homeless women battle with a Chicago hotel to earn the right to live and worship in its carpark. Then Starr appears, enigmatic, repellent to some, erotic to others, and miracles start to happen.
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- PublisherHamish Hamilton
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0241132630
- ISBN 13 9780241132630
- BindingHardcover
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