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THE WOMAN WHO WALKED ON WATER
by Tuck, Lily
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- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1573220213
- ISBN 13
- 9781573220217
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About This Item
New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Riverhead Books, 1996. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Adele leaves her comfortable life in Connecticut for India, to follow a guru she has met in Chartres Cathedral. Her departure confounds her family and neighbors: Adele is beautiful; she is lucky; she possesses charisma; she is a champion swimmer whose stamina and grace astound the patrons of the exclusive resort in the Caribbean that her family visits each year. Adele's husband cannot understand what the Indian guru - an elusive, ever-changing man who indeed seems privy to some of life's mysteries - can give Adele that he cannot. Her two children worry as she grows gaunt and begins to look older than her years, and as her letters arrive less and less frequently. As we watch Adele's deepening spirituality, The Woman Who Walked on Water compellingly gives life to the writings of Rumi, Laotzu, and the Upanishads, which infuse this work with their wisdom. Yet what also emerges is a troubling portrait of a woman alone in a foreign country, surrounded by a family and culture not her own, in a dry and dusty city. Lily Tuck portrays with acumen, pathos, and humor a woman who may have found enlightenment. She also leaves us questioning Adele's fate, and our own desires for transcendence. Second novel by the author of INTERVIEWING MATISSE, OR THE WOMAN WHO DIED STANDING UP; SIAM, OR THE WOMAN WHO SHOT A MAN; LIMBO, AND OTHER PLACES I HAVE LIVED, and the Man Booker Prize winner, THE NEWS FROM PARAGUAY. As new, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. [Not remainder-marked or price-clipped] L51
Synopsis
Lily Tuck was born in Paris and lived in Thailand in the early '60s. She is the author of two previous novels: Interviewing Matisse , Or the Woman Died Standing Up and The Woman Who Walked on Water . She has written numerous short stories, the most recent of which have been published in The New Yorker , Fiction , and The Antioch Review .
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- Bookseller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11273
- Title
- THE WOMAN WHO WALKED ON WATER
- Author
- Tuck, Lily
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1573220213
- ISBN 13
- 9781573220217
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, N. Y., U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1996
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- FICTION General
- Product_type
- 2
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