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Melba's wash
- Title
- Melba's wash / Reesa Steinman Brotherton.
- Author
- Brotherton, Reesa Steinman
- Publication
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; Lancaster (U.K.) : Guernica editions, 2019.
- ©2019
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 20-3861 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Roorda, Julie
- Description
- xv, 212 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Melba's Wash is a rich telling of the archetypal search. In this fractured familial story, Esther Prat wraps her fingers with her diamond necklace and reflects on the secrets, lies, and pain that haunt her life, and makes her choice. Born on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, as an infant she is unceremoniously taken to Montreal, Quebec, to spend the first ten years of her life brought up in an affluent Jewish family. At the age of ten, upon the death of her "daddy", she is without explanation not allowed to attend his funeral and is taken on a train destined for New Brunswick, back to the poverty stricken environment of her family of origin. The resulting culture shock results in emotional and spiritual torment, undermining her self-esteem and sense of identity. On into life, marriage, children, divorce, a devastating flood, geographical moves, and a battle with pharmaceutical drugs, she struggles to maintain equilibrium and balance of past and present."--
- Series Statement
- Essential prose series ; 166
- Uniform Title
- Essential prose series ; 166.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Note
- "Julie Roorda, editor"--Title page verso.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-3861
- ISBN
- 9781771834001
- 1771834005
- 9781771834018 (canceled/invalid)
- 1771834013 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781771834025 (canceled/invalid)
- 1771834021 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019930420
- OCLC
- 1081304346
- Author
- Brotherton, Reesa Steinman, author.
- Title
- Melba's wash / Reesa Steinman Brotherton.
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; Lancaster (U.K.) : Guernica editions, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Essential prose series ; 166Essential prose series ; 166.
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Added Author
- Roorda, Julie, editor.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Brotherton, Reesa Steinman. Melba's wash. First edition. Toronto ; Buffalo ; Lancaster (U.K.) : Guernica, 2019 1771834013 9781771834018 (OCoLC)1081304418
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-3861