Labrador - Hardcover

Davis, Kathryn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0370312414 ISBN 13: 9780370312415

Publisher: The Bodley Head, 1989

Synopsis

This novel tells the story of two sisters and the ambigious, sometimes destructive ties that bind them. It chronicles Kitty's passage into adulthood as she tries to escape from Willie's strong spirit which dominates the family home, by following her grandfather to his home in Labrador.

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Review:

Kathryn Davis"s "dazzling first novel" (KIRKUS REVIEWS) "transforms a
literary commonplace -- a young girl"s transition from childhood to
adulthood -- into a brilliantly original story" (BELLES LETTRES). In
LABRADOR, Davis conjures two unforgettable sisters. Willie, the elder,
is beautiful and wayward. Kitty, the younger, is a loner whose only
means of escaping the bewitching influence of her sister is to follow
her grandfather to his home in Labrador, where she cannot avoid
confronting the demons that haunt her. A tale of two siblings and the
ambiguous, sometimes destructive ties that bind them, LABRADOR is a
brooding meditation on love, its joys, its limitations, and its hidden
bitterness.

"Charged with wonder and as flagrantly skillful as a fire-eater's act."

Kathryn Davis' s " dazzling first novel" (KIRKUS REVIEWS) " transforms a
literary commonplace -- a young girl' s transition from childhood to
adulthood -- into a brilliantly original story" (BELLES LETTRES). In
LABRADOR, Davis conjures two unforgettable sisters. Willie, the elder,
is beautiful and wayward. Kitty, the younger, is a loner whose only
means of escaping the bewitching influence of her sister is to follow
her grandfather to his home in Labrador, where she cannot avoid
confronting the demons that haunt her. A tale of two siblings and the
ambiguous, sometimes destructive ties that bind them, LABRADOR is a
brooding meditation on love, its joys, its limitations, and its hidden
bitterness.

Kathryn Davis ' s & quot; dazzling first novel& quot; (KIRKUS REVIEWS) & quot; transforms a literary commonplace & mdash; a young girl ' s transition from childhood to adulthood & mdash; into a brilliantly original story& quot; (BELLES LETTRES). In LABRADOR, Davis conjures two unforgettable sisters. Willie, the elder, is beautiful and wayward. Kitty, the younger, is a loner whose only means of escaping the bewitching influence of her sister is to follow her grandfather to his home in Labrador, where she cannot avoid confronting the demons that haunt her. A tale of two siblings and the ambiguous, sometimes destructive ties that bind them, LABRADOR is a brooding meditation on love, its joys, its limitations, and its hidden bitterness.

Kathryn Davis s dazzling first novel (KIRKUS REVIEWS) transforms a literary commonplace a young girl s transition from childhood to adulthood into a brilliantly original story (BELLES LETTRES). In LABRADOR, Davis conjures two unforgettable sisters. Willie, the elder, is beautiful and wayward. Kitty, the younger, is a loner whose only means of escaping the bewitching influence of her sister is to follow her grandfather to his home in Labrador, where she cannot avoid confronting the demons that haunt her. A tale of two siblings and the ambiguous, sometimes destructive ties that bind them, LABRADOR is a brooding meditation on love, its joys, its limitations, and its hidden bitterness.
The New York Times
"Charged with wonder and as flagrantly skillful as a fire-eater's act." The New York Times"

Kathryn Davis's "dazzling first novel" (KIRKUS REVIEWS) "transforms a literary commonplace -- a young girl's transition from childhood to adulthood -- into a brilliantly original story" (BELLES LETTRES). In LABRADOR, Davis conjures two unforgettable sisters. Willie, the elder, is beautiful and wayward. Kitty, the younger, is a loner whose only means of escaping the bewitching influence of her sister is to follow her grandfather to his home in Labrador, where she cannot avoid confronting the demons that haunt her. A tale of two siblings and the ambiguous, sometimes destructive ties that bind them, LABRADOR is a brooding meditation on love, its joys, its limitations, and its hidden bitterness.

The New York Times

"Charged with wonder and as flagrantly skillful as a fire-eater's act." The New York Times

About the Author:

Kathryn Davis is the recipient of a Kafka Prize for fiction by an American woman and the 1999 Morton Dauwen Zabel Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters. Davis teaches at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York and lives with her husband and daughter in Vermont.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Bodley Head
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0370312414
• ISBN 13: 9780370312415
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232