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The juniper tree / Barbara Comyns ; introduction by Sadie Stein.
Van Pelt Library PR6053.O452 J86 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Comyns, Barbara, 1907-1992, author.
- Series:
- New York Review Books classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Single mothers--Fiction.
- Single mothers.
- Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 177 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Review Books, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Bella Winter is homeless and jobless. The mother of a toddler by a man whose name she didn't quite catch, her once pretty face is now marred by a scar from a car accident. She's recently disentangled herself from a selfish and indifferent boyfriend and a cruel and indifferent mother. But she shares a quality common to Barbara Comyns's heroines: a bracingly unsentimental ability to carry on. It's not long before Bella has found not only a job but a vocation; not only a place to live but a home and a makeshift family. As Comyns's novel progresses, the story echoes and inverts the Brothers Grimm fairy-tale The Juniper Tree. Will Bella's hard-won restoration to life and love come at the cost of others' happiness?"-- Provided by publisher.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781681371313
- 1681371316
- OCLC:
- 976241059
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