A Keeper of Sheep

by William Carpenter

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Penelope Solstice, better known as Penguin, is exiled to Cape Cod after setting fire to the site of a gang rape at her college. Here, she defines her relationships with herself and those around her as she cares for a composer who is dying of AIDS and is desperate to complete his final work.

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William Carpenter teaches literature at the College of the Atlantic in Maine. He is the author of three books of poetry and a previous novel

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PS3553 .A7622 .K44Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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