The Silver Screen
β Scribed by Maureen Howard
- Book ID
- 111166527
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 571 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780143035558
- ASIN
- B001NQGNBU
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β¦ Synopsis
Maureen Howard deepens her inquiry into the meeting place of history and family in this stunning and accessible novel. Isabel Murphy renounced silent-film stardom to raise a family in Rhode Island. Now she is dead at 90 and her children are trying to break free of the lives she has dealt them. Joe, a Jesuit priest, has failed at love and the healing of souls. Stodgy Rita has found late happiness with a gangster who has turned stateβs evidence. And Gemma, Isabelβs honorary child, has grown up to experience a strange celebrity as a photographer. A darkly comic story of guilt, love, and forgiveness, The Silver Screen is luminous in its intelligence and empathy.
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