| Crocodile Soup Contributor(s): Darling, Julia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060090405 ISBN-13: 9780060090401 Publisher: Ecco Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Romance - Lgbt - Lesbian - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 5.28" W x 8" (0.63 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Lesbian - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Gert Hardcastle is thirty-something and unlucky in love. She is also estranged from her mother. As Crocodile Soup opens, she thinks she has found the One -- the enigmatic Eva, who serves coffee at the cafeteria in the museum where Gert works as a curator cataloging Egyptian artifacts. As Gert embarks on her hilarious and poignant pursuit of Eva, she looks back on her eccentric, childhood through a series of vivid and surreal flashbacks: her obsessive twin, Frank, with whom she communicates telepathically; her father, George, who vanished to Africa to salvage the family crocodile farm; her vain, neglectful mother, Jean; and the family ghost -- a Victorian poet who haunts the attic.In a narrative studded with relentless humor and giddy self-deprecation, Julia Darling introduces an endearing cast of characters whose shared and wayward search for love is irresistible. |
Contributor Bio(s): Darling, Julia: - Julia Darling is a playwright, poet, and short-story writer. Crocodile Soup is her first novel. She lives in northern England with her two daughters. |