Hunger's Brides: A Novel of the Baroque - Couverture rigide

Anderson, Paul

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0786715413 ISBN 13 : 9780786715411

Editeur : Da Capo Press, 2005

Synopsis

Book by Anderson Paul

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

On a frigid winter's night, a man escapes from an apartment in which a young woman lies bleeding. In his hands he clutches a box he has found there. He is Donald Gregory, a once-respected college professor and serial adulterer, whose last affair has left his career in ruins. She is Beulah Limosneros, one of his students and for a brief time his lover. She had disappeared into Mexico two years earlier, following her obsession with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, who was born in 1648, entered a convent at age nineteen, and became the greatest poet of her time, only to die of plague in 1695. As a police investigation closes in around Gregory, he examines the box's contents, fearful of incriminating evidence Beulah may have against him—translated poems of Sor Juana, a travel journal, research notes on the Spanish conquest of the Americas and the Inquisition, diary entries concerning him, and a strange manuscript about Sor Juana. Based on the life of one of literature's most compelling figures, Paul Anderson's astonishing debut unveils a great poet's withdrawal from the world who at the height of her creative powers signs a vow of contrition in her own blood.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Da Capo Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0786715413
• ISBN 13: 9780786715411
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 1376