The changeling / Joy Williams ; with an introduction by Karen Russell.
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TextPublisher: London : Tuskar Rock Books, 2018Copyright date: ©1978Description: xxv, 310 pages ; 23 cmISBN: - 9781788161343
- 813.54 23
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiction | Waverley LibraryPlus Fiction | Fiction | WILL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | i2183065 |
This edition first published: Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2018. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1978.
When we first meet Pearl - young in years but advanced in her drinking - she's sitting at a hotel bar in Florida, throwing back gin and tonics. Cradled in the crook of her arm is her infant son. But the relief she feels at having fled her abusive husband, and the Northeastern island his family calls home, doesn't last for long. Soon she's being shepherded back. The island, for Pearl, is a place of madness and pain, and her drinking might dull the latter but it spurs on the former. Through the lens of Pearl's fragile consciousness, readers encounter the horror and triumph of both childhood and motherhood.
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