Genealogy - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor Maud Casey stories have appeared in T he Threepenny Review, Prairie Schooner, The Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere. Casey received her B.A. from Wesleyan University and her M.F.A. in fiction from the University of Arizona. She lives in Washington, DC and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Maryland. Klappentext Meet the Hennarts: Samantha Hennart, a poet with writer's block; her husband, Bernard, obsessed with the life of a nineteenth-century Belgian mystic with stigmata; their son, Ryan, a mediocre rock musician; and their eighteen-year-old daughter, Marguerite, who is quietly losing her mind. A meditation on family, faith, and mental illness, Genealogy is an operatic story of one family's unraveling and ultimate redemption. Zusammenfassung Meet the Hennarts: Samantha Hennart! a poet with writer's block; her husband! Bernard! obsessed with the life of a nineteenth-century Belgian mystic with stigmata; their son! Ryan! a mediocre rock musician; and their eighteen-year-old daughter! Marguerite! who is quietly losing her mind. A meditation on family! faith! and mental illness! Genealogy is an operatic story of one family's unraveling and ultimate redemption.

Product details

• Authors: Maud Casey
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2006
• EAN: 9780060740894
• ISBN: 978-0-06-074089-4
• No. of pages: 260
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 203 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Family Life / Siblings, FICTION: Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, FICTION: Psychological, FICTION: Disaster, fiction;2005;2006;2007, FICTION: World Literature / American / General