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Florida Paperback - 2005

by Christine Schutt

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Mariner Books, November 2005. Paperback. USED Good.
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Details

  • Title Florida
  • Author Christine Schutt
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition USED Good
  • Pages 168
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Mariner Books, Orlando, FL
  • Date November 2005
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 51043
  • ISBN 9780156030540 / 0156030543
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.4 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 1.02 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Bildungsromans
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005046354
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

In this elegiac and luminous novel, which John Ashbery called "an amazing achievement" and Mary Gordon dubbed "a wholly original endeavor," Christine Schutt gives voice to the feast of memory, the mystery of the mad and missing, and the power of words.

Set in the Midwest, where Florida represents a faraway paradise, this novel tells the story of Alice Fivey. Fatherless since she was seven, Alice is left in the care of her relatives at the age of ten, when her mother, whose "toenails winked in the foil bed we knew for Florida," is institutionalized. Alice is moved from place to place, remaining still while others try to mold her into someone different from her mother. She consoles herself with books and becomes a storyteller herself as she moves into adulthood, ever further from the desolation of her mother's actions and closer to the meaning of her own experience.

Told in brief scenes of spare beauty, Florida is a graceful and gripping tale of family, forgiveness, and creation of the self.

From the publisher

"A Harvest book."

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PRAISE FOR FLORIDA

"This slender book grows plump on language . . . Florida, like family, is a land where cruelty and tenderness can be nearly indistinguishable and the border between love and rage too often disappears."--Newsday

"The luxury of this debut novel is its rich, descriptive language. It's harnessed with powerful simplicity."--The Christian Science Monitor