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The birdcatcher

Jones, Gayl (author.).

Summary: "Set primarily on the island of Ibiza, the story is narrated by the writer Amanda Wordlaw, whose closest friend, a gifted sculptor named Catherine Shuger, is repeatedly institutionalized for trying to kill a husband who never leaves her. The three form a quirky triangle on the white-washed island"--

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  • ISBN: 0807029947
  • ISBN: 9780807029947
  • ISBN: 0807030007
  • ISBN: 9780807030004
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (207 pages)
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  • Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2022]

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Language Note:
Translated from the German.
Source of Description Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
Subject: Authors -- Fiction
Sculptors -- Fiction
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
Ibiza Island (Spain) -- Fiction
Authors
Sculptors
Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
Spain -- Ibiza Island
Genre: Fiction.
Novels.
Novels.
Historical fiction.

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Gayl Jones was born in Kentucky in 1949. She attended Connecticut College and Brown University, and has taught at Wellesley College and the University of Michigan. Her landmark books include Corregidora, Eva’s Man, The Healing (a National Book Award finalist and New York Times Notable Book of the Year), Palmares (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction), and most recently, The Birdcatcher (National Book Award finalist).

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