| The Hunger Moon Contributor(s): Matson, Suzanne (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393337510 ISBN-13: 9780393337518 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1997 Annotation: Graced with a lovely ear for language, Matson traces the unexpectedly linked lives, and transforming, enduring friendships, of three modern women from three different generations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.72 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - New England - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Friendship |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Renata, a waitress, has left her boyfriend Bryan without telling him he is about to become a father. She drives cross-country to begin a new life in Boston with her baby son, Charlie, hoping to stay free of emotional entanglements and the associations of a painful childhood. Eleanor, a seventy-eight-year-old widow, finds herself gradually stripping away the layers of complication in her life until she is living in virtually a plain white room. June, a young dance student, is dangerously obsessed with thinness to mask her loneliness. The three women, from very different social backgrounds and age, meet by chance and their lives become unexpectedly linked. An emergency involving baby Charlie and the unannounced appearance of Bryan culminates in a dramatic and satisfying conclusion. |
Contributor Bio(s): Matson, Suzanne: - Suzanne Matson, a 2012 fellow in fiction writing from the National Endowment for the Arts, is the author of four novels and two collections of poetry. She teaches at Boston College and lives in Newton, Massachusetts. |