Cassandra At The Wedding - 9781590171127
Un libro in lingua di Dorothy Baker Eisenberg Deborah (AFT) edito da Random House Inc, 2004
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Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-wracked, miserable. At the beginning of this novel, she drives back to her family ranch in the foothills of the Sierras to attend the wedding of her identical twin, Judith, to a nice young doctor from Connecticut. Cassandra, however, is hell-bent on sabotaging the wedding.
Dorothy Baker's entrancing tragicomic novella follows an unpredictable course of events in which her heroine appears variously as conniving, self-aware, pitiful, frenzied, absurd, and heartbroken—at once utterly impossible and tremendously sympathetic. Cassandra reckons with her complicated feelings about the sister who she feels owes it to her to be her alter ego; with her father, a brandy-soaked retired professor of philosophy; and with the ghost of her dead mother, as she struggles to come to terms with the only life she has.
First published in 1962, Cassandra at the Wedding is a book of enduring freshness, insight, and verve. Like the fiction of Jeffrey Eugenides and Jhumpa Lahiri, it is the work of a master stylist with a profound understanding of the complexities of the heart and mind.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Cassandra At The Wedding
- Lingua: English
- Autori : Dorothy Baker Eisenberg Deborah (AFT)
- Editore: Random House Inc
- Collana: Random House Inc (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Ottobre '04
- Genere: FICTION
- Argomenti : Women graduate students Fiction Mothers Death Fiction Ranch life Fiction
- Pagine: 241
- Dimensioni mm: 203 x 133 x 19
- ISBN-10: 1590171128
- EAN-13: 9781590171127