Center Point Pub, 2005. Hardcover. Used Good. Light wear to cover, slightly bumped corners, pages clean and unmarked. Inscription to a previous owner is written on inside of front. We carry new and used books in our storefront. We want you to be satisfied with your purchase. Please contact us if you have questions regarding this item.

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Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. Jessie Sullivan’s conventional life has been “molded to the smallest space possible.” So when she is called home to cope with her mother’s startling and enigmatic act of violence, Jessie finds herself relieved to be apart from her husband, Hugh. Jessie loves Hugh, but on Egret Island—amid the gorgeous marshlands and tidal creeks—she becomes drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk who is mere months from taking his final vows. What transpires will unlock the roots of her mother’s tormented past, but most of all, as Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it, she will find a freedom that feels overwhelmingly right. What inspires the yearning for a soul mate? Few writers have explored, as Kidd does, the lush, unknown region of the feminine soul where the thin line between the spiritual and the erotic exists. The Mermaid Chair is a vividly imagined novel about the passions of the spirit and the ecstasies of the body; one that illuminates a woman’s self-awakening with the brilliance and power that only a writer of Kidd’s ability could conjure.

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Bookseller: Firefly Bookstore LLC (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 429021
Title: The Mermaid Chair (Large Print)
Author: Sue Monk Kidd
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used Good
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 1585476323
ISBN 13: 9781585476329
Publisher: Center Point Pub
Place of Publication: Thorndike, Me
Date Published: 2005
Pages: 368
Bookseller catalogs: Large Print/Fiction;

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