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McNamer, Deirdre My Russian
New York, NY, U.S.A. Ballantine Books 2000 0345439511 / 9780345439512 Trade Paperback Near-Fine No Jacket
No writing or ma"One morning I stood on the back deck of our handsome house and I realized that my interior self, the self I did not present to the world or even to those closest to me, seemed to have burned out." So confesses Francesca Woodbridge, the narrator of Deirdre McNamer's novel. Francesca rekindles herself with plans for a garden, which lead to a lover - her Russian gardener, a refugee from Chernobyl. Now Francesca is supposedly in Greece with a tour group, but she is actually living in disguise just blocks from where her husband, Ben, and her teenage son await her return. Ben, a lawyer, is recovering from a gunshot wound inflicted some months earlier by a mysterious intruder. Francesca tells a series of stories that traverse the past four decades, beginning with her childhood in a prairie town ringed by underground missiles aimed at Russia. Her voice is searching, specific, unsparing, and sometimes darkly funny. In the process of listening, we learn who shot her husband, a modest mystery that rests on a larger one: for, a woman like Francesca Woodbridge, what makes a fully lived, fully conscious life? rks - No tears - Tight spine - Very-nice copy -
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McNamer, Deirdre One Sweet Quarrel: A Novel
New York, New York, U.S.A. Perennial 1995 0060926058 / 9780060926052 Trade Paperback Fine No Jacket
In her dazzling second novel, Deirdre McNamer uses an enigmatic and haunting narrative voice - one that recalls the narrators in Toni Morrison's Jazz and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera - to limn a story of three siblings who venture from their muffled turn-of-the-century Midwestern childhoods into the heedless twenties. Daisy Lou Malone strikes out for a singing career in New York City. Carlton Malone becomes a hard-drinking hustler on his home turf, while Jerry Malone, lured by the promise of free land, joins other unlikely homesteaders in northern Montana, where the most extravagant dreams can be had for the asking and the most modest hopes can be dashed in a season. Jerry's inept farming ventures are ruined by the reality of drought and hail. He and his young wife, oddly relieved, move to town and make plans to move farther west - to Seattle. The discovery of oil beneath the scraped prairie halts them in their tracks. Jerry's gusher dreams are vivid, though less entrancing to him than the idea of the subterranean - the buried horizons, the "formation" - and the dizzying luck attached to the buying and selling of land. When the oil activity begins to gutter - like Daisy's singing career and Carlton's entire life - Jerry and other local boosters, dreaming of tigers in red weather, decide to stage, in tiny Shelby, Montana (population: 1,000), the heavyweight boxing championship of the world. Incredibly, the town raises almost $300,000 and Jack Dempsey comes to town to battle Tommy Gibbons. Daisy Lou Malone arrives at the same time, and when she and Jerry - minor characters on a large stage - emerge from the enormous wooden arena on the prairie after the historical fight, their lives are permanently altered. McNamer's new novel, ambitious and stunning, conjures up the look and feel of the twenties, both urban and frontier. Moreover, it offers a version of the West - one of fedoras and flivvers and city boys and girls plunked down on the pra
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