Ohio Angels
A Novel
$42.63
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2011
Summary
Harriet Scott Chessman’s Ohio Angels is an intimate and a lyrical story about friendship and family struggles. Hallie, a painter who now lives in Brooklyn, returns to her family home in Ohio, where she unearths a secret about her parents. Her discovery sheds light on her mother’s depression, which shadowed her own childhood, and helps her understand her own inability to have children. In her hometown, Hallie reconnects with a beloved childhood friend, Rose, who is now a writer and pregnant wi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781583225196 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1583225196 |
| Author: | Harriet Scott Chessman |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Edition: | 7th |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 258g |
| Dimensions: | 185mm x 136mm x 19mm |
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Critics Review
“Chessman’s language flows like a summer river… . A poetic and moving first novel.” –Ellie Barta-Moran, Booklist
“Quietly lyrical … Chessman’s style is fluid and unobtrusive, and manages to be meditative without being abstract.” –Kirkus Reviews
About The Author
Harriet Scott Chessman
HARRIET SCOTT CHESSMAN is the author of the acclaimed novels Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper and Ohio Angels, as well as The Public Is Invited to Dance, a book about Gertrude Stein. Formerly associate professor of English at Yale University, she has also taught literature and writing at Bread Loaf School of English and at Wesleyan University, and has published several essays on modern literature. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.
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