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Being Esther : a novel / Miriam Karmel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karmel, Miriam.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Older women--Fiction.
- Older women.
- Self-realization in women--Fiction.
- Self-realization in women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : Milkweed Editions, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A wonderful fiction debut, Being Esther gives voice to Esther Lustig, an extraordinary woman who has lived a conventional life, in this touching exploration of aging and its accompanied search for meaning.In spare, refreshingly unsentimental prose, Miriam Karmel has given us one of literature's finest portraits of the last months of a woman's life. At once sad and amusing, unpretentious and ambitious, Karmel's fiction debut brings understanding and tremendous empathy to the character of Esther Lustig, a woman readers will recognize and embrace.Born to parents who fl
- Contents:
- Prologue; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; 25; 26; 27; Postscript
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-57131-874-7
- OCLC:
- 830170511
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