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008			110614s1999 nyu 000 1 eng
020			_a0345439511
050	0	0	_aPS3563.C38838 _bM92 1999
082	0	0	_aFIC MCN
100	1		_aMcNamer, Deirdre
245	1	0	_aMy Russian _c/ by Deirdre McNamer.
260			_aNew York _b: Ballantine Books _c, c1999.
300			_a278 p. _c; 22 cm.
520			_aNow Francesca is supposedly in Greece with a tour group, but she is actually living in disguise just blocks from where her husband, Ren, and her teenage son await her return. Ren, a lawyer, is recovering from a gunshot wound inflicted some months earlier by a mysterious intruder. Francesca moves unnoticed through the town she calls home, seeing it with the seizing eyes of a traveler. Her memories have a similar hyperclarity. She tells a series of stories that traverse the past four decades, beginning with her childhood in a prairie town ringed by underground missiles aimed at Russia. Her voice is searching, specific, unsparing, and sometimes darkly funny. In the process of listening, we learn who shot her husband, a modest mystery that rests on a larger one: for a woman like Francesca Woodbridge, what makes a fully lived, fully conscious life?
650			_aSelf-actualization (Psychology) _v--Fiction
650		0	_aMiddle aged women _v--Fiction
655		7	_aAdventure stories
655		7	_aPsychological fiction
942			_cMO
999			_c246492 _d246492