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Michelle Hoover

The Quickening

A Novel

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Enidina Current and Mary Morrow live on neighboring farms in the flat, hard country of the upper Midwest during the early 1900s. This hardscrabble life comes easily to some, like Eddie, who has never wanted more than the land she works and the animals she raises on it with her husband, Frank. But for the deeply religious Mary, farming is an awkward living and at odds with her more cosmopolitan inclinations. Still, Mary creates a clean and orderly home life for her stormy husband, Jack, and her sons, while she adapts to the isolation of a rural town through the inspiration of a local preacher. She is the first to befriend Eddie in a relationsh… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-59051-360-6
  • EAN: 9781590513606
  • Produktnummer: 15735141
  • Verlag: Other Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
  • Seitenangabe: 272 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'797 KB

Über den Autor


Michelle Hoover teaches writing at Boston University and Grub Street andhas published fiction in Confrontation, The Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, and Best New American Voices, among others. She has been a Bread Loaf Writer's Conference scholar, the Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University, a MacDowell fellow, a Pushcart Prize nominee, and in 2005 the winner of the PEN/New England Discovery Award for Fiction. She was born in Ames, Iowa, the granddaughter of four longtime farming families.

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