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005 | 20231009192644.0 | ||
008 | 110614s1999 nyu 000 1 eng | ||
010 | _a99019140 | ||
020 | _a0345439511 | ||
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_aPS3563.C38838 _bM92 1999 |
082 | 0 | 0 | _aFIC MCN |
100 | 1 | _aMcNamer, Deirdre | |
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_aMy Russian _c/ by Deirdre McNamer. |
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_aNew York _b: Ballantine Books _c, c1999. |
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_a278 p. _c; 22 cm. |
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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 |
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650 | 0 |
_aMiddle aged women _v--Fiction |
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655 | 7 | _aAdventure stories | |
655 | 7 | _aPsychological fiction | |
942 | _cMO | ||
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