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Solstice (Virago Modern Classics)
Joyce Carol Oates Price: LE 36
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Monica Jensen surprises everyone who knows her - including her husband - when she accepts an offer to teach at a boys' school in Pennsylvania. As she moves into her new rambling house, Sheila Trask arrives, a wild-looking figure in jodhpurs, and invites herself in. Sheila, a painter, has long baffled the neighbours with her strange habits and eccentric demeanour. Monica can't decide if she likes the woman, if she wishes her gone or if she feels a tug of powerful attraction. Week by week, as Monica settles into the community and her teaching role, Sheila's exhausting attentions gradually become a source of energising insight: into Monica's own golden girl past, and into the dark Neitzschean insolence of Sheila's artistic vision. As the solstice approaches and the evenings lengthen, together the women make a journey of intense friendship and sometimes frightening consequences. |
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Language: English Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Time Warner Books UK (1998) ISBN-10: 1860494854 ISBN-13: 9781860494857
Genre: Classics Size: 12.6 cm x 19.4 cm Shipping Weight: 44 grams Condition: Good
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