Summary
Loosely based in historical fact,Sister Noonis a wryly funny, playfully mysterious, and totally subversive novel from theNew York Timesbestselling author ofThe Jane Austen Book Club.Lizzie Hayes, a member of the San Francisco elite, is a seemingly docile, middle-aged spinster praised for her volunteer work with the Ladies Relief and Protection Society Home, or “The Brown Ark”. All she needs is the spark that will liberate her from the ruling conventions.When the wealthy and well-connected, bu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780452283282 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0452283280 |
| Author: | Karen Joy Fowler |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | G P Putnam's Sons |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 28 May 2002 |
| Weight: | 254g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 135mm x 19mm |
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Praise for Sister Noon“A playful, mysterious, highly imaginative narrative set in the San Francisco of the 1890’s…Robust, sly, witty, elegant, unexpected and never, ever, boring.”—Margot Livesey, The New York Times Book Review“Sister Noon is funny, lyrical, spooky, inspired…A work of enchanting rumination-and one of the year’s best reads.”—The Seattle Times“Fowler’s prose is full of shimmering melancholy, and a ruminative irony that brings her characters and their world alive in the most unexpected ways…a dazzling book.”—Jonathan Lethem
About The Author
Karen Joy Fowler
Karen Joy Fowler, a PEN/Faulkner and California Book Award winner, is the author of six novels (two of them New York Times bestsellers) and four short story collections. She has been a Dublin IMPAC nominee, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2014. She lives in Santa Cruz, California.
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