Featherstone - Softcover

Gunn, Kirsty

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618446605 ISBN 13: 9780618446605

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2004

Synopsis

Kirsty Gunn's spellbinding third novel is a portrait of the small town of Featherstone and the interior lives of its inhabitants. Over the course of one weekend, years after the beautiful and spirited Francie Johanssen fled town, rumors of her return stir memories that threaten to disrupt the community.
Gunn reveals how Francie's absence continues to shape the subconscious longings, hopes, and dreams of those she left behind, including Margaret, the local hotel's promiscuous bartender; Mary Susan, a troubled and rebellious teenager who wants to get out of town as soon as she can; Francie's elderly uncle Sonny; Harland, the faithless minister; and Kate, his despondent wife. Affected most of all, perhaps, is Ray, Francie's old high school boyfriend who has never been able to let go of her. As tension mounts in Featherstone, Gunn elegantly crafts a story that is "richly layered and rewarding" (Scotland on Sunday).

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Review:

"Featherstone sparkles like a shard of glass and cuts as deeply."

Book Description:

Featherstone by Kirsty Gunn gradually intimates the unsettling nature of her small country town - there's something intense and intimate that goes deep into the lives of the people who live here . . .

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0618446605
• ISBN 13: 9780618446605
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256