Grace notes / Bernard Mac Laverty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacLaverty, Bernard.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

276 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, 1997.

Summary:

Bernard MacLaverty brings us into the life of Catherine McKenna - estranged daughter, vexed lover, new mother, and musician making her mark in a male-dominated field. On the remote island of Islay she struggles for her artistic life in the midst of a relationship gone dangerously wrong. In Glasgow she becomes a mother and later composes a large-scale symphonic work to celebrate her child. And in her home town in Northern Ireland she returns to bury a difficult father, forge a tentative peace with her mother, and confront the ghosts of a constricting past. In part hers is a very modern spiritual journey, from superstition to sensibility.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0393045420

OCLC:

36994714