**From the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor's Children, a brilliant new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed, and betrayed by passion and desire for a world beyond her own.** Nora Eldridge, a thirty-seven-year-old elementary school teacher in Cambridg
The woman upstairs: a novel
β Scribed by Messud, Claire
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books
- Year
- 2013;2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 199 KB
- Edition
- First Vintage books edition
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Relegated to the status of schoolteacher and friendly neighbor after abandoning her dreams of becoming an artist, Nora advocates on behalf of a charismatic Lebanese student and is drawn into the child's family until his artist mother's careless ambition leads to a shattering betrayal.
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