Author : Ursule Molinaro
Publisher : McPherson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Demons & Divas by : Ursule Molinaro
Download or read book Demons & Divas written by Ursule Molinaro and published by McPherson. This book was released on 1999 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this trilogy of short novels--her first new book in six years--Ursule Molinaro drew upon a wealth of sources (including Balzac, Flaubert, and Hildegard of Bingen) to transform the grotesqueries of our time into timeless tales. Angel on Fire presents Clara Corvo, who was born with three peculiarities--a cloven hoof, phenomenal intelligence, and clairvoyance. Her mother finds her unbearable, and to escape her family takes a young student as a lover. When six-year-old Clara matriculates at Harvard Law School, an almost classical conclusion is inevitable. In twenty letters gathered for the pending canonization of Jacob Erskine Wooster, a picture emerges not of humility but of large contraditions in an ordinary man whose beatification is as strange as his life. Saint Boy is Diane Arbus in prose. In April in Paris, Molinaro spins Southern gothic into French embroidery. An American woman out of her element wherever she happens to be.