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001 ocm70451303
003 OCoLC
005 20100512144703.0
008 970721r19961995vtu 000 1 eng d
010 $a 96043870
040 $aUAB$cUAB
020 $a1883642337 (alk. paper)
020 $a9781883642334 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)70451303
050 00 $aPR9199.3.G658$bM57 1997
082 00 $a813/.54$220
100 1 $aGowdy, Barbara.
245 10 $aMister Sandman :$ba novel /$cBarbara Gowdy.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aSouth Royalton, Vt. :$bSteerforth Press,$cc1996.
300 $a268 p. ;$c24 cm.
520 $aBarbara Gowdy's outrageous, hilarious, disturbing, and compassionate novel is about the Canary family, their immoderate passions and eccentricities, and their secret lives and histories. The deepest secret of all is harbored in the silence of the youngest daughter, Joan, who doesn't grow, who doesn't speak, but who can play the piano like Mozart though she's never had a lesson. Joan is a mystery, and in the novel's stunning climax her family comes to understand that each of them is a mystery, as marvelous as Joan, as irreducible as the mystery of life itself. In its compassionate investigation of moral truths and its bold embrace of the fractured nature of every one of its characters, Mister Sandman attains the heightened quality of a modern-day parable.
650 0 $aFamily$xFiction.
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952 $a219377351$zCUY$bUNIV OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY$hFull$iLCC$kDDC$u20080404
994 $aZ0$bPMR
948 $hNO HOLDINGS IN PMR - 29 OTHER HOLDINGS