(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Kate Walbert
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"They were on a lark, three teenaged girls speeding across the greens on a “borrowed” golf cart, at night, drunk. The cart crashes and one of the girls lands violently in the rough, killed instantly. The driver, Jo, flees the hometown that has turned against her and enrolls at a prestigious boarding school. Her past weighs on her. She is responsible for the death of her best friend. She has tipped her parents' rocky marriage into demise. She is...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"In Sunken Cathedral, Kate Walbert tells the stories of four women living in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, more or less now. Two, Marie and Simone, friends for decades, are widows in their seventies, yet robust, engaged, appetiteful, even ready to find love again. They were immigrants, survivors of World War II in Europe, and now are living alone in the houses where they raised their children. Elizabeth is Marie's tenant, the mother of a 13 year...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
The novel opens in England in 1915, at the deathbed of Dorothy Townsend, a suffragist and one of the first women to integrate Cambridge University. Her decision to starve herself for the cause informs and echoes in the later, overlapping narratives of her descendants. Among them are her daughter Evie, who becomes a professor of chemistry at Barnard College in the middle of the century and never marries, and her granddaughter Dorothy Townsend Barrett,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"In these twelve deft, acutely funny and often heartbreaking stories, Kate Walbert delves into the hearts and minds of women. Her characters are searchers, uneasy in one way or another. They yearn for connection. They question the definitions assigned to them as wives, mothers, and daughters; they seek their own way within isolated, and often isolating, circumstances, reveling in small, everyday epiphanies and moments of clarity. In the riveting opening...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print ed.
Language
English
Description
Kate Walbert returns with twelve deft, acutely funny, and often heartbreaking stories. Her characters question the definitions assigned to them as wives, mothers, and daughters. They seek their own way within isolated, and often isolating, circumstances and revel in everyday epiphanies and quick moments of clarity.
Search Tools Get RSS Feed Email this Search