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Marissa's Books & Gifts, LLC 9780345450906 The Seduction of Water
Marissa's Books & Gifts, LLC 9780345450906 The Seduction of Water

    The Seduction of Water

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    • Vendor: Marissa's Books & Gifts, LLC
    • Product Type: Book
    • Barcode: 9780345450906
    • Condition: New
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Author: Carol Goodman
    • Publisher: Random House LLC
    • Published: 2003-01-01
    • ISBN 10: 0345450906
    • ISBN 13: 9780345450906
    • SKU: 1569522068385x263424424092631040
    DESCRIPTION
    Iris Greenfeder, ABD (All But Dissertation) has just turned forty, lives in Manhattan, and works three teaching jobs to support herself. Recently she’s felt that the “buts” are taking over her life: all but published, all but a professor, all but married (to Jack, her boyfriend of ten years). Yet the sudden impulse to write a story about her mother leads to a shot at literary success. The piece recounts an eerie Irish fairy tale her mother used to tell her at bedtime–and nestled inside is the sad story of her mother’s death. More than fifty years ago, Iris’s mother, Katherine Morrissey, arrived at the Catskills’ grand Hotel Equinox penniless, with almost no belongings. Kay was hired as a maid but refused to speak of her past or her family. One year later, she married Ben Greenfeder, the hotel’s manager. During the hotel’s off-season, Kay wrote the first two fantasy novels of a planned trilogy. There never was a third book. When Iris was nine, her mother left one day for a writer’s conference–and never came back. Kay died that very night in a hotel fire on Coney Island, registered as another man’s wife.

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