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It is 1991. Daniel Hand's daughters, Jessie and Olivia, have grown up and left home. Daniel finds it increasingly difficult to accept their independence, and is drinking more than ever. But despite the girls' problems, their bonds of love are too strong to be broken.Tags
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I love Ellen Gilchrist but the novel is not her genre. She's an excellent short story writer and should stick with that.
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She is the author of 16 works of fiction, including the story collection Victory Over Japan, which won the National Book Award & most recently, The Cabal & Other Stories. She lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Ocean Springs, Mississippi & New Orleans, Louisiana. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Canonical title
- Starcarbon
- Original publication date
- 1994
- Epigraph
- ...and leave you, (inexpressibly to unravel) your life, with its immensity and fear, so that, now bounded, now immeasurable, it is alternately stone in you and star. --Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Stephen Mitchell)
- First words
- It was still winter in Boston.
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 2
