Jessica Francis Kane
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Die introvertierte Gärtnerin May Attaway steht mit vierzig an einem Scheidepunkt in ihrem Leben. Als sie unerwartet vier Wochen Urlaub bekommt, erkennt sie, dass ihr Leben nur aus Routinen besteht und sie sehr einsam ist. Zeit also, sich gewissen Fragen zu stellen: Warum hat sie sich nie der Liebe hingegeben? Was ist aus ihren Freundschaften geworden? May beschließt ihre abgeschottete Welt zu verlassen und herauszufinden, wer sie in Gesellschaft...
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English
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A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on an odyssey to reconnect with four old friends over the course of a year. At forty, May Attaway is more at home with plants than people. Over the years, she's turned inward, finding pleasure in language, her work as a gardener, and keeping her neighbors at arm's length while keenly observing them. But when she is unexpectedly granted some leave from...
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Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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"A middle-aged woman, irritated with her wealthy young neighbor's yard improvements, offers a corner of her lawn to a Croatian immigrant who wants a vegetable garden. A daughter accompanies her father to Israel, where, seeing a new side of him away from her mother, she makes an unusual bargain. In twelve stories about the difficult, sometimes impermeable boundaries between friends, neighbors, and family relations, Jessica Francis Kane explores just...
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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"London, 1943 : Tube stations across London have been converted into bomb shelters. Night after night, while sirens wail in Bethnal Green, immigrants and East Enders alike sleep on the tracks and wait. But on March 3, as the crowd hurries down the staircase, something goes wrong, and 173 adults and children lose their lives in a deadly crush. When the devastated neighborhood demands an inquiry, the job falls to the young magistrate Laurence Dunne..."--Front...
