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050	0	0	_aPR6052.A57 _bM78 2017
082	1		_aFIC BAN _2
100	1		_aBanville, John
245	1	0	_aMrs. Osmond _c/ John Banville
250			_aFirst American edition.
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, 2017
300			_a369 p. _c; 22 cm
520			_aIsabel Archer is a young American woman, swept off to Europe in the late nineteenth century by an aunt who hopes to round out the impetuous but naive girl's experience of the world. When Isabel comes into a large, unexpected inheritance, she is finagled into a marriage with the charming, penniless, and - as Isabel finds out too late - cruel and deceitful Gilbert Osmond, whose connection to a certain Madame Merle is suspiciously intimate. On a trip to England to visit her cousin Ralph Touchett on his deathbed, Isabel is offered a chance to free herself from the marriage, but nonetheless chooses to return to Italy. Banville follows James's story line to this point, but Mrs. Osmond is thoroughly Banville's own: the narrative inventiveness; the lyrical precision and surprise of his language; the layers of emotional and psychological intensity; the subtle, dark humor. And when Isabel arrives in Italy - along with someone else! - the novel takes off in directions that James himself would be thrilled to follow.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aYoung women _v--Fiction
650		4	_aAmericans _z-Italy _v--Fiction
650		4	_aInheritance and succession _v-Fiction
650		4	_aMarried people _x-Fiction
650		4	_aTriangles (Interpersonal relations) _v--Fiction
655		4	_aPsychological fiction
655		4	_aLove stories
942			_cMO
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