The nightingales of Troy: stories of one family's century

✍ Scribed by Alice Fulton

• Book ID: 100105153
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Year: 2008;2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 160 KB
• Edition: First pbk. edition
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0393079503

✦ Synopsis

"Outstanding....Alice Fulton reveals herself to be triumphantly at home in the short story."--Boston Sunday Globe In 1908, Mamie Garrahan faces childbirth aided by her arsenic-eating sister-in-law Kitty, a nun who grows opium poppies, and a doctor who prescribes Bayer Heroin. "In the twentieth century, I believe there are no saints left," Mamie remarks. But her daughters and granddaughter test this notion with far-reaching consequences. Kitty's arsenic reappears sixty years later in the hands of her distraught niece. A schoolgirl's passion for the Beatles and Melville--a passion both lonely and funny--shapes her life. Each decade is illuminated by endearingly eccentric characters: an anorexic waitress falls for a wealthy college boy in the jazz age...an exuberant young nurse questions science during the Depression...a homely seamstress designs a scandalous dress in the 1950s. The Nightingales of Troy , the first fiction collection by an acclaimed...