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Sister Noon

3.10 ( 1,030 Ratings by Goodreads)
Sister Noon

Sister Noon

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3.10 (1,030 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 14 May, 2015
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'Words were invented so lies could be told' Mary Ellen Pleasant San Francisco in the 1890s is a town of contradictions, home to a respectable middle class, but with the Wild West lingering in the imagination, and even the behaviour, of some residents. Lizzie Hayes, a seemingly docile, middle-aged spinster, is praised for her volunteer work with the Ladies' Relief and Protection Society Home, or the Brown Ark. She doesn't know it, but she's waiting for the spark that will liberate her from convention. When the wealthy and well-connected but ill-reputed Mary Ellen Pleasant shows up at the Brown Ark with an orphan in tow, Lizzie is drawn to them both. It is the beautiful Mrs Pleasant, object of suspicion because of her mysterious past and rumoured voodoo practise, who holds the key to freeing Lizzie's rebellious nature. Based on real historical figures, San Francisco in the gilded age is brought vibrantly to life in Karen Joy Fowler's entertaining, evocative and sinister novel.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781781255490
ISBN10 1781255490
Number Of Pages 303
Item Weight 240 g
Product Dimensions 128 x 24 x 196 mm
Publisher / Reseller Serpent's Tail
Format paperback
Edition Main
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Robust, sly, witty, elegant, unexpected * New York Times Book Review *
Fowler's language dazzles * San Francisco Chronicle *
In Sister Noon, Karen Joy Fowler recreates a lost world so thrillingly, with such intelligence, trickery and art, that when you at last put the book down and look up from the page it all seems to linger, shimmering, around you, like the residue of a marvellous dream -- Michael Chabon
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 - reading Sister Noon is like staring at early portrait photographs until the eyes begin to shine and your head is filled with voices that urge you to recall that these vanished lives, and your own, are stranger than you allow. A dazzling book. -- Jonathan Lethem
Fowler has a voice like no other, lyrical, shrewd and addictive, with a quiet deadpan humour that underlies almost every sentence * Newsday *
This is a remarkable novel which brings glitteringly to life an obscure milieu. -- Katy Guest * Independent on Sunday *
Delightful. -- Kate Saunders * The Times *
If you liked Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil you'll love this. -- Wendy Holden * Daily Mail *
There's plenty of magic to keep readers entertained in this witty tale, plus a fascinating insight into historical San Francisco. Delightful and unexpected. * Prima *

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Author's Bio

Karen Joy Fowler is the author of six novels and three short story collections. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014, won the PEN/Faulkner Prize and has sold over half a million copies. www.karenjoyfowler.com

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