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The shape of wilderness / a novel by Shelley Berc.

LIBRA - Special PS3552.E67 S48 1995
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Berc, Shelley.
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Fiction.
Romance novels.
Genre:
Romantic suspense fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Fiction.
Penn Provenance:
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Physical Description:
279 pages ; 22 cm
Place of Publication:
Minneapolis : Coffee House Press ; Saint Paul, MN : Distributed to the trade by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, [1995]
Summary:
A magic realism novel on twin sisters whose mother operates an empty hotel in the middle of nowhere in America. One sister paints with her vomit, which leads to a bad affair with a visiting painter, the other endures sexual assaults by a taxidermist to learn the secrets of his trade. A first novel by a playwright.
Other Format:
Online version: Berc, Shelley. Shape of wilderness.
ISBN:
1566890365
9781566890366
OCLC:
32853069

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