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Sister Noon

Karen Joy Fowler

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English
Signet
28 May 2002
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, but ill-reputed Mary Ellen Pleasant shows up at the Brown Ark, Lizzie is drawn to her.

It is the beautiful, but mysterious Mary Ellen, an outcast among the women of the elite because of her notorious past and her involvement in voodoo, who will eventually hold the key to unlocking Lizzie's rebellious nature.
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Imprint:   Signet
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 202mm,  Width: 135mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   254g
ISBN:   9780452283282
ISBN 10:   0452283280
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Sister Noon

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


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