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Our lady of the prairie
- Title
- Our lady of the prairie / Thisbe Nissen.
- Author
- Nissen, Thisbe, 1972-
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 18-2068 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 357 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "A sharp and bitingly funny novel about a professor whose calm-ish midwestern life gives way to a vortex of crises--and her attempts to salvage the pieces without going to pieces herself...In the space of a few torrid months on the Iowa prairie, Phillipa Maakestad--long-married theater professor and mother of an unstable daughter--grapples with a life turned upside down. After falling headlong into a passionate affair during a semester spent teaching in Ohio, Phillipa returns home to Iowa for her daughter Ginny's wedding. There, Phillipa must endure (among other things) a wedding-day tornado, a menace of a mother-in-law who may or may not have been a Nazi collaborator, and the tragicomic revenge fantasies of her heretofore docile husband. Naturally, she does what any newly liberated woman would do: she takes a match to her life on the prairie and then steps back to survey the wreckage. Set in the seething political climate of a contentious election,Thisbe Nissen's new novel is sexy, smart, and razor-sharp--a freight train barreling through the heart of the land and the land of the heart"--
- After falling headlong into a passionate affair during a semester spent teaching in Ohio, theater professor Phillipa Maakestad returns home to Iowa for her daughter Ginny's wedding. She faces a wedding-day tornado, a menace of a mother-in-law who may or may not have been a Nazi collaborator, and the tragicomic revenge fantasies of her heretofore docile husband. Naturally, she does what any newly liberated woman would do: she takes a match to her life on the prairie and then steps back to survey the wreckage.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Humorous fiction.
- Romance fiction.
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-2068
- ISBN
- 9781328662071
- 1328662071
- LCCN
- 2017044908
- OCLC
- 1005795801
- Author
- Nissen, Thisbe, 1972- author.
- Title
- Our lady of the prairie / Thisbe Nissen.
- Publisher
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-2068