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God on the rocks / Jane Gardam.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Snack Gardam God
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gardam, Jane.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children of clergy--Fiction.
- Children of clergy.
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters.
- England--Fiction.
- England.
- Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Physical Description:
- 195 p. ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Europa Editions, 2010, c1978.
- Summary:
- Originally published in Great Britain in 1978, the novel describes Margaret Marsh's coming of age one summer between the world wars. Caught in the backwash of a fervently religious father, a mother bitterly nostalgic for what might have been, the tea and sympathy of some thoroughly secular neighbors and the bawdy jokes of her nanny Lydia, Margaret's world hurtles towards a shattering moment of truth. Drama, tragedy and a touch of farce lend themselves to Gardam's typically eloquent prose. With subtlety and precision, God on the Rocks provides an intimate portrait of the tensions that divide men and women, present and past, and the love and sorrow that lingers throughout. --From publisher description.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London : H. Hamilton, 1978.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781933372761 (pbk.)
- 1933372761 (pbk.)
- OCLC:
- 548596927
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