| Welcome to the Great Mysterious: Welcome to the Great Mysterious: A Novel Contributor(s): Landvik, Lorna (Author) |
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ISBN: 0345442741 ISBN-13: 9780345442741 Publisher: Ballantine Group OUR PRICE: $16.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2002 Annotation: Megastar of stage, screen, and television, Geneva Jordan now has a command performance in Minnesota, where she agrees to look after her thirteen-year-old nephew, a boy with Down's syndrome, while his parents take a long-overdue vacation. Though Geneva and her sister, Ann, are as different as night and day ("I being night, of course, dark and dramatic"), Geneva remembers she had a family before she had a star on her door. But so accustomed is she to playing the lead, finding herself a supporting actress in someone else's life is strange and unexplored territory. Then the discovery of an old scrapbook that she and her sister created long ago starts her thinking of things beyond fame. For "The Great Mysterious is a collection of thoughts and feelings dedicated to answering life's "big questions--far outside the spotlight's glow. . . . |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Sagas |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Reader's Circle |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 5.52" W x 8.22" (0.67 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Midwest - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Geographic Orientation - Minnesota |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: " A] sweet, funny story . . . as good as Patty Jane's House of Curl."--Minneapolis Star Tribune Megastar of stage, screen, and television, Geneva Jordan now has a command performance in Minnesota, where she agrees to look after her thirteen-year-old nephew, a boy with Down's syndrome, while his parents take a long-overdue vacation. Though Geneva and her sister, Ann, are as different as night and day ("I being night, of course, dark and dramatic"), Geneva remembers she had a family before she had a star on her door. But so accustomed is she to playing the lead, finding herself a supporting actress in someone else's life is strange and unexplored territory. Then the discovery of an old scrapbook that she and her sister created long ago starts her thinking of things beyond fame. For The Great Mysterious is a collection of thoughts and feelings dedicated to answering life's big questions--far outside the spotlight's glow. . . . |