โ Scribed by Carlene Bauer
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Inspired by Flannery O'Connor and Robert Lowell, this novel in letters immerses us inside a moving literary love story and transports us to mid-twentieth-century New York in all its glamour and zip
In the summer of 1957, Frances and Bernard meet at a writers' colony. She finds him faintly ridiculous, but talented. He sees her as aloof, but intriguing. Afterward, he sends her a letter. Soon they are engaged in the kind of fast, deep connection that can take over โ and change the course of โ our lives. Bernard is a poetโwell-born, Harvard-educated, gregarious, passionate. Frances is a fiction writer--daughter of a middle-class Irish family, wry, fairly (and often unfairly) judgmental. She is deeply Catholic; he is a convert who yearns to sound out matters of the spirit. He is well into his writing career; she is looking for a way into New York literary life. So begins an extraordinary novel told in absorbing correspondence that explores faith, creativity, depression, passion,...
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