The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
Autor Tiffany Bakeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 ian 2010
Serena Jane's beauty proves to be her greatest blessing and her biggest curse, for it makes her the obsession of classmate Bob Bob Morgan, the youngest in a line of Robert Morgans who have been doctors in Aberdeen for generations. Though they have long been the pillars of the community, the earliest Robert Morgan married the town witch, Tabitha Dyerson, and the location of her fabled shadow book--containing mysterious secrets for healing and darker powers--has been the subject of town gossip ever since. Bob Bob Morgan, one of Truly's biggest tormentors, does the unthinkable to claim the prize of Serena Jane, and changes the destiny of all Aberdeen from there on.
When Serena Jane flees town and a loveless marriage to Bob Bob, it is Truly who must become the woman of a house that she did not choose and mother to her eight-year-old nephew Bobbie. Truly's brother-in-law is relentless and brutal; he criticizes her physique and the limitations of her health as a result, and degrades her more than any one human could bear. It is only when Truly finds her calling--the ability to heal illness with herbs and naturopathic techniques--hidden within the folds of Robert Morgan's family quilt, that she begins to regain control over her life and herself. Unearthed family secrets, however, will lead to the kind of betrayal that eventually break the Morgan family apart forever, but Truly's reckoning with her own demons allows for both an uprooting of Aberdeen County, and the possibility of love in unexpected places.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780446194228
ISBN-10: 0446194220
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-10: 0446194220
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing
Colecția Grand Central Publishing
Notă biografică
Tiffany
Baker
is
the
author
ofThe
Gilly
Salt
SistersandThe
Little
Giant
of
Aberdeen
County,
which
was
a
New
York
Times
and
San
Francisco
Chronicle
bestseller.
She
holds
an
MFA
(creative
writing)
and
a
PhD
(Victorian
Literature)
from
UC
Irvine,
and
lives
in
the
San
Francisco
Bay
Area
with
her
husband
and
three
children.
Recenzii
Grabs
you
from
its
astonishing
beginning
to
its
riveting
conclusion.
Its
charms
are
multitude--
a
wholly
unique
love
story,
a
devastating
friendship,
a
bewitching
multi-generational
history...
A
must-read.
--Sara
Gruen,
author
of
WATER
FOR
ELEPHANTS
"Mixes the exuberant eccentricities of John Irving, Anne Tyler's relationship savvy and Margaret Atwood."(PW,Starred Review)
A beautiful, startling and wholly original novel, LGOAC is infused with magic, lush language, and surprises on every page. This book is a treasure. --Stephanie Kallos, author of BROKEN FOR YOU
A bracing, bright, masterful debut, Tiffany Baker is a writer to watch. --Joshilyn Jackson, author of THE GIRL WHO STOPPED SWIMMING
"This fun, folkloric story is partUgly Duckling, part Tim Burton'sBig Fish.... For anyone looking to vanquish the cruelties of the real world, this one's for you."(Marie Claire)
"A little pearl of a book... like buried treasure."(The Dallas Morning News)
"Baker's writing is beautiful. Her descriptive style crafts Truly's emotions into sentences that are hidden treasures."(The Las Vegas Review-Journal)
"An alluring plot... lush voice... Baker has a good sense of the dark comedy of melodrama."(Washington Post)
"One splendid book... Pick of the week."(Boston Sunday Globe)
"First-time novelist Tiffany Baker uses the omniscient first-person narrator with ease. Although written in the past tense, the straightforward timeline construction manages to deliver for its characters a fairy-tale quality of coming, going and being all at once. Truly's wisdom and self-possession are the charm."(The San Francisco Chronicle)
"Tiffany Baker poured her whole heart into this weird and wonderful first novel-- and the result resembles its heroine: ungainly but magical; grotesque but true."(Chicago Sun-Times)
"But the brilliant part of this book is the colorful world of Aberdeen that Baker constructs; she weaves together a multitude of little bits to fashion one genuinely entertaining story."(Wisconsin State Journal)
"Truly Plaice is a heroine for our times. She is also a mercy killer, a healer, a loyal and loving friend, aunt and sister and the star of an enchanting first novel."(USA Today)
"Mixes the exuberant eccentricities of John Irving, Anne Tyler's relationship savvy and Margaret Atwood."(PW,Starred Review)
A beautiful, startling and wholly original novel, LGOAC is infused with magic, lush language, and surprises on every page. This book is a treasure. --Stephanie Kallos, author of BROKEN FOR YOU
A bracing, bright, masterful debut, Tiffany Baker is a writer to watch. --Joshilyn Jackson, author of THE GIRL WHO STOPPED SWIMMING
"This fun, folkloric story is partUgly Duckling, part Tim Burton'sBig Fish.... For anyone looking to vanquish the cruelties of the real world, this one's for you."(Marie Claire)
"A little pearl of a book... like buried treasure."(The Dallas Morning News)
"Baker's writing is beautiful. Her descriptive style crafts Truly's emotions into sentences that are hidden treasures."(The Las Vegas Review-Journal)
"An alluring plot... lush voice... Baker has a good sense of the dark comedy of melodrama."(Washington Post)
"One splendid book... Pick of the week."(Boston Sunday Globe)
"First-time novelist Tiffany Baker uses the omniscient first-person narrator with ease. Although written in the past tense, the straightforward timeline construction manages to deliver for its characters a fairy-tale quality of coming, going and being all at once. Truly's wisdom and self-possession are the charm."(The San Francisco Chronicle)
"Tiffany Baker poured her whole heart into this weird and wonderful first novel-- and the result resembles its heroine: ungainly but magical; grotesque but true."(Chicago Sun-Times)
"But the brilliant part of this book is the colorful world of Aberdeen that Baker constructs; she weaves together a multitude of little bits to fashion one genuinely entertaining story."(Wisconsin State Journal)
"Truly Plaice is a heroine for our times. She is also a mercy killer, a healer, a loyal and loving friend, aunt and sister and the star of an enchanting first novel."(USA Today)