Fiery, independent Nola Hughes fought valiantly for women's rights, but never realized that her own were going to be considerably impinged upon by a father who practically sold her into marriage. Worse than that, her new bridegroom was an autocratic, domineering wretch of a man she'd taken an instan
Oola
โ Scribed by Brittany Newell
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Co.;Henry Holt Paperbacks
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 195 KB
- Edition
- First Editon
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1250114152
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โฆ Synopsis
In an isolated cabin on the California coast, a writer's obsession with a lithe conservatory dropout takes a dangerous turn; a knockout of a debut from a brilliant twenty-one-year-old newcomer
The first thing Leif notices about Oola is the sharp curve of her delicate shoulders, tensed as if for flight. Even from that first encounter at a party in a flat outside of London, there's something charged, electric about the way Oola, a music school dropout, connects with the cossetted, listless drifter of a narrator we find in twenty-five-year-old Leif. In love, infatuated, the two hit the road across Europe, housesitting for Leif's parents' wealthy friends, and finally settling for the summer in Big Sur. Left to their own devices, a project begins. Leif makes Oola his subject: he will attempt an infinitesimal cartography of her every thought and gesture, her every dimple, every snag, every swell of memory and hollow. And yet in this atmosphere of stifling and paranoid...
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