| There Is Room for You Contributor(s): Bacon, Charlotte (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312423845 ISBN-13: 9780312423841 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2005 Annotation: "A richly endowed memory piece...Bacon is a seductive and gifted storyteller."--Maureen Howard, author of "A Lover's Almanac" Anna Singer, a charmingly independent young New Yorker, feels derailed after losing her father to a car accident and her husband to a younger woman. She books a trip to India, hoping that there she will be able to put her grief into perspective. Though this is her first visit, India has always tantalized her: her English mother, Rose, was raised in Calcutta during the twilight of the British Raj, but seldom spoke of her childhood. Then, as Anna departs, Rose gives her a manuscript in which she has recorded her Indian memories, torn between two cultures and belonging completely to neither. "Readable and sophisticated...it makes us want to stay, indeed, unable to turn away from the ultimate fate of this vulnerable family unsure of just how and where they fit together, but about to discover the way." --Christine Thomas, "San Francisco Chronicle Book Review" "Intelligent, richly atmospheric...unconventional glimpses of India past and present sit vividly side by side with reflections on politics, perception and racial identity."--"Publisher Weekly" "Engaging...a subtle bildungsroman."--"The Washington Post Book World" "Bacon has woven an insightful mother-daughter saga into her depiction of the complexity that is India, creating a satisfying amalgam of past and present."--"Booklist" Charlotte Bacon is the author of Lost Geography, and the PEN/Hemingway Award-winning story collection "A Private State," She teaches at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2005276409 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.80 lbs) 276 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A richly endowed memory piece...Bacon is a seductive and gifted storyteller.--Maureen Howard, author of A Lover's Almanac Anna Singer, a charmingly independent young New Yorker, feels derailed after losing her father to a car accident and her husband to a younger woman. She books a trip to India, hoping that there she will be able to put her grief into perspective. Though this is her first visit, India has always tantalized her: her English mother, Rose, was raised in Calcutta during the twilight of the British Raj, but seldom spoke of her childhood. Then, as Anna departs, Rose gives her a manuscript in which she has recorded her Indian memories, torn between two cultures and belonging completely to neither. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bacon, Charlotte: - Charlotte Bacon is the award-winning author of Lost Geography (FSG, 2000) and A |