Divining Women - Hardcover

Gibbons, Kaye

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399151605 ISBN 13: 9780399151606

Publisher: A Marian Wood Book/Putnam, 2004

Synopsis

In 1918, as rumors of peace spread across America, the country is confronted by the onslaught of a deadly influenza epidemic, while Maureen Ross struggles to deal with a difficult pregnancy, her emotionally abusive husband Troop, and despair, until the arrival of Troop's niece, Mary Oliver, the sheltered child of a wealthy, freethinking family who sets out to protect her aunt.

About this title

About the Author:

Kaye Gibbons is the author of six previous novels, including Ellen Foster and, most recently, On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon.

From AudioFile:

Gibbons reads her seventh novel with a graceful, hypnotic rhythm reminiscent of its North Carolina setting. Her painful story, however, is anything but hypnotic--it seethes with volcanic intensity. In autumn, 1918, at the emotionally strangling confluence of a flu epidemic and rumors of imminent peace, Maureen Ross makes two important discoveries: She is married to an emotionally frozen tyrant, and she is pregnant with his child. When her 22-year-old niece, Mary, comes to her rescue, Troop Ross appears bent on ripping apart any sense his wife has of her own worth. Can Mary's youthful fire spark renewed self-esteem in her aunt, or is it too late? Gibbons's wise restraint as a reader in some sense prepares us for the novel's ultimate explosion. P.E.F. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: A Marian Wood Book/Putnam
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0399151605
• ISBN 13: 9780399151606
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224