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My Russian by Deirdre McNamer (Hardback, 2001)

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Francesca Woodbridge is spying on her former life -- a recent lover, a wounded husband, and a rapidly changing America. One morning I stood on the back deck of our handsome house and I realized that my interior self, the self I did t present to the world or even to those closest to me, seemed to have burned out. So confesses Francesca Woodbridge, the narrator of Deirdre McNamer's remarkable new vel. As her feelings recede from the visceral to the archival, Francesca rekindles herself with plans for a garden, which lead to a lover -- her Russian gardener, an exile from Cherbyl. Now Francesca is supposedly in Greece with a tour group, but she is actually living in disguise just blocks from where her husband, Ren, and her teenage son await her return. Ren, a lawyer, is recovering from a gunshot wound inflicted some months earlier by a mysterious intruder. Francesca moves unticed through the town she calls home, seeing it with the seizing eyes of a traveler, as Cynthia Ozick once put it. Her memories have a similar hyperclarity. She tells a series of stories that traverse the past four decades, beginning with her childhood in a wheatlands town overlooking missiles aimed at Russia. Her voice is searching, specific, unsparing, and sometimes darkly funny. In the process of listening, we learn who shot her husband, a modest mystery that rests on a larger one: for a woman like Francesca Woodbridge, at the end of this particular century, what is a fully lived life?

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin, Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
ISBN-10
0395956374
ISBN-13
9780395956373
eBay Product ID (ePID)
103408053

Product Key Features

Format
Hardback
Language
English
Topic
General & Literary Fiction
Author
Deirdre Mcnamer

Additional Product Features

Place of Publication
Boston
Out-Of-Print Date
19/10/2011
Date of Publication
01/03/2001
Country of Publication
United States

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