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House Under Snow
Contributor(s): Bialosky, Jill (Author)
ISBN: 0156027461     ISBN-13: 9780156027465
Publisher: Mariner Books
OUR PRICE:   $17.09  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: June 2003
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Annotation: This first novel by a celebrated American poet is a story of mothers and daughters, of sexual identity, and of a family disintegrating after the premature death of its patriarch.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Family Life - Siblings
- Fiction | Women
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2001007435
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.70 lbs) 264 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Family
 
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Publisher Description:
A novel by an acclaimed American poet, House Under Snow is a story of mothers and daughters, of sexual identity, of a family slowly disintegrating after the premature death of its patriarch. Anna Crane, soon to be married, reflects back on her childhood in Ohio during the 1960s and '70s with her two sisters and her charismatic, self-destructing mother. Evoking the claustrophobia of small-town life, Anna's first passionate love affair with a troubled boy who works as a groom and trainer at a horse track, and her mother's endless stream of suitors and a failed marriage, the novel races toward a chilling conclusion when Anna is betrayed by the two most important figures in her young life.

Not since Alice McDermott's That Night has there been such a telling portrait of first love. And not since Mona Simpson's Anywhere But Here have we witnessed the destructive, seductive nature of a mother who insists on competing with her children. An unforgettable tale of the power and vulnerability of sex and family, history and the past, House Under Snow is a lyrical and brilliant fictional debut.

Contributor Bio(s): Bialosky, Jill: - JILL BIALOSKY is the author of the acclaimed novel House Under Snow and two collections of poetry, The End of Desire and Subterranean. Her poems and essays have appeared in the New Yorker and O, The Oprah Magazine. She is an editor at W. W. Norton & Company and lives in New York City.