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The history of great things, a novel, Elizabeth Crane

Label
The history of great things, a novel, Elizabeth Crane
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The history of great things
Responsibility statement
Elizabeth Crane
Sub title
a novel
Summary
In two beautifully counterpoised narratives, two women -- mother and daughter -- try to make sense of their own lives by revisiting what they know about each other. The History of Great Things tells the entwined stories of Lois, a daughter of the Depression Midwest who came to New York to transform herself into an opera star, and her daughter, Elizabeth, an aspiring writer who came of age in the 1970s and '80s in the forbidding shadow of her often-absent, always larger-than-life mother. In a tour de force of storytelling and human empathy, Elizabeth chronicles the events of her mother's life, and in turn Lois recounts her daughter's story -- pulling back the curtain on lifelong secrets, challenging and interrupting each other, defending their own behavior, brandishing or swallowing their pride, and, ultimately, coming to understand each other in a way that feels both extraordinary and universal
Target audience
general
Content

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