The Woman Who Walked on Water - Couverture rigide

Tuck, Lily

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1573220213 ISBN 13 : 9781573220217

Editeur : Putnam Pub Group, 1996

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Woman Who Walked on Water  is a beautifully crafted, dark fable, the story of a woman's search for meaning, from the author of The Double Life of Liliane.

Adele leaves her comfortable life in Connecticut for India, to follow a guru she has met in Chartres Cathedral. Her departure confounds her family and neighbors: Adele is beautiful; she is lucky; she possesses charisma; she is a champion swimmer whose stamina and grace astound the patrons of the exclusive resort in the Caribbean that her family visits each year. Adele's husband cannot understand what the Indian guru - an elusive, ever-changing man who indeed seems privy to some of life's mysteries - can give Adele that he cannot. Her two children worry as she grows gaunt and begins to look older than her years, and as her letters arrive less and less frequently.

As we watch Adele's deepening spirituality,  The Woman Who Walked on Water compellingly gives life to the writings of Rumi, Laotzu, and the Upanishads, which infuse this work with their wisdom. Yet what also emerges is a troubling portrait of a woman alone in a foreign country, surrounded by a family and culture not her own, in a dry and dusty city. Lily Tuck portrays with acumen, pathos, and humor a woman who may have found enlightenment. She also leaves us questioning Adele's fate, and our own desires for transcendence.

Biographie de l'auteur

Lily Tuck is the author of many novels: The Double Life of Liliane, I Married You for Happiness; Interviewing Matisse or the Woman Who Died Standing Up; The Woman Who Walked on Water; Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man, nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award; The News From Paraguay, winner of the National Book Award; and the short story collection The House at Belle Fontaine.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Putnam Pub Group
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1573220213
• ISBN 13: 9781573220217
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 241
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible