Research Catalog
A beauty
- Title
- A beauty / Connie Gault.
- Author
- Gault, Connie, 1949-
- Publication
- [Toronto, Ont.] : McClelland & Stewart, [2015]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 15-1694 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 317 p.; 22 cm
- Summary
- In a drought-ridden Saskatchewan of the 1930s, self-possessed, enigmatic Elena Huhtala finds her self living alone, a young Finnish woman in a community of Swedes in the small village of Trevna. Her mother has been dead for many years, and her father, burdened by the hardships of drought, has disappeared, and the eighteen-year-old is an object of pity and charity in her community. But when a stranger shows up at a country dance, Elena needs only one look and one dance before jumping into his Lincoln Roadster, leaving the town and its shocked inhabitants behind. What follows is a trip through the prairie towns, their dusty streets, shabby hotel rooms, surrounded by dry fields that stretch out vastly, waiting for rain. Elena's journey uncovers the individual stories of an unforgettable group of people, all of whom are in one way or another affected by her seductive yet innocent presence. At the centre is Ruth, a girl whose life becomes changed in unexpected ways. She and the girl Elena, distanced and apart, form a strange bond that will come to haunt the decades for them both. Written in luminous prose, threaded through with a sardonic wit and deep wisdoms, A Beauty is at one time lyrical and tough, moving and mysterious, a captivating tale of a woman who, without intending to, touches many lives, and sometimes alters them forever.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 15-1694
- ISBN
- 9780771036552
- 0771036558
- 9780771036569 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- 0771036566 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 885207037
- Author
- Gault, Connie, 1949-
- Title
- A beauty / Connie Gault.
- Publisher
- [Toronto, Ont.] : McClelland & Stewart, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Gault, Connie, 1949-, author. Beauty. (CaOONL)2014904660X
- Research Call Number
- JFD 15-1694