Harriet Scott Chessman’s Ohio Angels is an intimate and a lyrical story about friendship and family struggles. Hallie, a painter who now lives in Brooklyn, returns to her family home in Ohio, where she unearths a secret about her parents. Her discovery sheds light on her mother’s depression, which shadowed her own childhood, and helps her understand her own inability to have children. In her hometown, Hallie reconnects with a beloved childhood friend, Rose, who is now a writer and pregnant with her third child.
Chessman beautifully evokes the childhood memories of the two friends, illuminating their very different lives. As in Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper, Chessman’s compassionate and perceptive gaze reveals an entire new world for us—one that is subtle, alive, and deeply honest.
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HARRIET SCOTT CHESSMAN is the author of the acclaimed novels Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper and Ohio Angels, as well as The Public Is Invited to Dance, a book about Gertrude Stein. Formerly associate professor of English at Yale University, she has also taught literature and writing at Bread Loaf School of English and at Wesleyan University, and has published several essays on modern literature. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.
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Hardback. Etat : Good. In this arresting first novel from Harriet Scott Chessman, Hallie Greaves comes home to Ohio one hot week in July hoping to help her mother, who confines her life wholly to her bedroom. To enter her mother's room, however, is to come face to face with Hallie's own disappointments and yearnings. At an impasse in her painting and in her marriage, Hallie confronts questions of love, memory, sorrow, and infertility. Rose, Hallie's girlhood friend, who has abandoned her literary gifts to nurture her children and her husband's career, further tugs Hallie into a reexamination of the life she has chosen. In the tradition of Virginia Woolf and Margaret Atwood, Harriet Scott Chessman's novel has the lyrical richness of a poem. She creates a luminous and sometimes disturbing world out of this Ohio landscape of porches, pools, mulberry trees, mowed lawns, luncheonettes, and churches. Immersing us in the consciousness of five characters, Chessman addresses the ways in which memory and vision change according to one's place on the map, or in the story. In bringing together these voices, Ohio Angels constructs a brilliant and moving portrait of the intricacies of marriage and friendsship. In the face of shattering difficulties, this shared story offers surprising possibilities for humor, compassion, and renewal. N° de réf. du vendeur 00095678433
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Hardback. Etat : Good. In this arresting first novel from Harriet Scott Chessman, Hallie Greaves comes home to Ohio one hot week in July hoping to help her mother, who confines her life wholly to her bedroom. To enter her mother's room, however, is to come face to face with Hallie's own disappointments and yearnings. At an impasse in her painting and in her marriage, Hallie confronts questions of love, memory, sorrow, and infertility. Rose, Hallie's girlhood friend, who has abandoned her literary gifts to nurture her children and her husband's career, further tugs Hallie into a reexamination of the life she has chosen. In the tradition of Virginia Woolf and Margaret Atwood, Harriet Scott Chessman's novel has the lyrical richness of a poem. She creates a luminous and sometimes disturbing world out of this Ohio landscape of porches, pools, mulberry trees, mowed lawns, luncheonettes, and churches. Immersing us in the consciousness of five characters, Chessman addresses the ways in which memory and vision change according to one's place on the map, or in the story. In bringing together these voices, Ohio Angels constructs a brilliant and moving portrait of the intricacies of marriage and friendsship. In the face of shattering difficulties, this shared story offers surprising possibilities for humor, compassion, and renewal. N° de réf. du vendeur CIN1583225196G
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