"Precocious, ethereal Simion Satterwhite arrives at Yale University in 1878 at age 16, eager to escape his West Virginia fundamentalist upbringing. He meets 31-year-old art professor Doriskos Klionarios, who was sold in infancy by his Greek prostitute mother to a British lord. Together they embark o
The god in flight: a novel
β Scribed by Argiri, Laura
- Publisher
- Lethe Press
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 333 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Connecticut--New Haven., New Haven (Conn.
- ISBN-13
- 9782016017104
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β¦ Synopsis
"Precocious, ethereal Simion Satterwhite arrives at Yale University in 1878 at age 16, eager to escape his West Virginia fundamentalist upbringing. He meets 31-year-old art professor Doriskos Klionarios, who was sold in infancy by his Greek prostitute mother to a British lord. Together they embark on an emotionally reckless courtship, made all the more difficult by social bigotry and human jealousy"--
β¦ Subjects
Connecticut -- New Haven
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