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The bride of catastrophe / Heidi Jon Schmidt.
- Title
- The bride of catastrophe / Heidi Jon Schmidt.
- Author
- Schmidt, Heidi Jon.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PS3569.C51554 B75 2003 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 422 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "The year is 1974, the place is Sweetriver College, and Beatrice Wolfe is telling the story of her life to the glamorous young professor Philippa Sayres. So begins the achingly funny, often heartbreaking story of Beatrice's quest to escape the gothic eccentricity of her family and to find an authentic identity of her own." "Married in a misbegotten passion, her parents are totally unsuited to farming or to any kind of business. The four Wolfe children's lives are ruled by their mother, whose larger-than-life demands and fears encircle them in a darkly comic web of contradictions. When they finally lose their "farm," Bea's family spirals out of control." "As her siblings live out the consequences of their parents' ruinous romance, Bea struggles to find a truer love for herself. Still under Philippa's spell, she joins a lesbian community and becomes so committed to her new gay life that she barely notices she's falling in love with a man - a man just risen from the ashes of addiction, whose re-creation of himself she threatens to undo."--BOOK JACKET.
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- ISBN
- 0312281773
- LCCN
- 2003049897
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries