'Where itaranta shines is in her understated but compelling characters' Red star review (for MEMORY OF WATER), Publishers Weekly. Emmi ItΓ€ranta's prose combines the lyricism of Ishiguro's NEVER LET ME GO. This is her second novel, following the award-winning MEMORY OF WATER.
The Street of the City
β Scribed by Hill, Grace Livingston
- Book ID
- 108644204
- Publisher
- Barbour Publishing, Inc.
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 251 KB
- Series
- GLH-47
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781630582067
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
When a neighbor becomes sick, an elderly woman hails a skater using the frozen river to commute to work. Val Willoughby is happy to help the family and alert the daughter, Frannie, at her job. When Frannie Fernley meets Val, there is instant attraction, but they are from different walks of life. Then when the local weapons plant is threatened, both Val and Frannie are pulled into intrigue that will shake their faith in God and man.
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'Where itaranta shines is in her understated but compelling characters' Red star review (for MEMORY OF WATER), Publishers Weekly. Emmi ItΓ€ranta's prose combines the lyricism of Ishiguro's NEVER LET ME GO. This is her second novel, following the award-winning MEMORY OF WATER.
The author of the critically acclaimed Memory of Water returns with this literary ecological tale in the vein of Ursula K. Le Guin and Sheri S. Tepper, in which an innocent young woman becomes entangled in a web of ancient secrets and deadly lies that lie at the dark center of her prosperous island