Leslie Jamison

The Gin Closet

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AS A YOUNG WOMAN, Tilly flees home for the hollow underworld of Nevada, looking for pure souls and finding nothing but bad habits. One day, after Tilly has spent nearly thirty years without a family, drinking herself to the brink of death, her niece Stella--who has been leading her own life of empty promise in New York City--arrives on the doorstep of Tilly's desert trailer. The Gin Closet unravels the strange and powerful intimacy that forms between them. With an uncanny ear for dialogue and a witty, unflinching candor about sex, love, and power, Leslie Jamison reminds us that no matter how unexpected its turns, the life we're given is all w… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4391-5323-9
EAN: 9781439153239
Produktnummer: 19411957
Verlag: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 304 S.
Gattung: a Novel
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H21.2 cm x B13.9 cm x D2.0 cm 287 g
Gewicht: 287

Über den Autor

Leslie Jamison was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in Los Angeles. She has worked as a baker, an office temp, an innkeeper, a tutor, and a medical actor. A graduate of Harvard College and the Iowa’s Workshop, she is the author of the essay collection The Empathy Exams, a New York Times bestseller, and the novel The Gin Closet, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, and the Oxford American, among others, and she is a columnist for the New York Times Book Review. She teaches at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with her family.