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The gift : a novel / Florence Noiville ; translated from the French by Catherine Temerson.
- Title
- The gift : a novel / Florence Noiville ; translated from the French by Catherine Temerson.
- Author
- Noiville, Florence
- Publication
- Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PQ2714.O48 D6613 2012 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Temerson, Catherine
- Description
- 99 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "This moving fictional memoir begins as a woman heads home after a meeting about her inheritance. Once on the train, she jots down a few notes, intended as a letter to her parents, which prompt the lyrical burst of memory and emotion that consitute this arresting novel. The narrator's mother had always loomed large in her life. Labeled "eccentric" or "Italian," her mother actually suffered from bipolar disorder. Without understanding the disease, the family treated the unpredictable ups and downs of her condition as best they could. During periods of paralyzing depression she was hospitalized, and the family felt abandoned. During periods of manic productivity, she was a dedicated pharmacist, an exemplary homemaker, and an exceptionally knowledgeable gardener."--P. [4] of cover.
- Uniform Title
- Donation. English
- Alternative Title
- Donation.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Dear Parents -- 2.Bare Owner -- 3."Switzerland Is a Beautiful Country, You'll See" -- 4.The Secret of Secrets -- 5.I'm Hopeless -- 6.E Pericoloso Sporgersi -- 7.Because Nothing Could Be Done About It -- 8.Such Slender Limbs -- 9.Deed of Damnation -- 10.If I Told You... -- 11.Life from the Past -- 12.Still Face -- 13.Vicious Circle -- 14.A Freedom Too Great for Us -- 15.Her Mother -- 16.Her Mother's Mother -- 17.Sneaking Away from Myself -- 18.Lethal Dose -- 19.ESP -- 20.Bring Me Your Love -- 21.MDP -- 22.Filia Dolorosa -- 23.What Are We Leaving Behind? -- 24.Metaphor of the Agapanthus -- 25.Donation, Debt -- 26.Persephone Seeks Demeter -- 27.To Give and Forgive -- 28.Dear Parents -- 29."All I Have Got Is What I Have Not Got" -- 30.An Eight-Gallon-Capacity Hefty Trash Bag.
- ISBN
- 9780810126763 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2011051525
- OCLC
- 769141533
- SCSB-10635268
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library