A novel of love at a slant
Frances (Franky) Cannon
A novel of love at a slant
Frances (Franky) Cannon
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A touching testament to the power of letter writing and connecting with strangers, for fans of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop and What You're Looking For is in the Library.
Receiving an unexpected letter on the morning of her 70th birthday, Georgianna embarks on a dangerous canoe trip near her Wisconsin childhood home to unearth the truth about her father's imprisonment for her mother's murder more than 60 years earlier
Wharton's superb satirical novel of the Jazz Age--originally published in 1927. Taking her title from the sleep induced through medication to ease the pain during childbirth, Edith Wharton sketches a portrait of a society eager to escape the pain of everyday life through drugs and alcohol, secret sexual alliances, immersion in work, and the pursuit and capricious squandering of money
