Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Nightingales of Troy: Stories of One Family's Century

3.6/5 ( ratings)

In 1908, Mamie Garrahan faces childbirth aided by her arsenic-eating sister-in-law Kitty, a nun who grows opium poppies, and a doctor who prescribes Bayer Heroin. "In the twentieth century, I believe there are no saints left," Mamie remarks. But her daughters and granddaughter test this notion with far-reaching consequences. Kitty's arsenic reappears sixty years later in the hands of her distraught niece. A schoolgirl's passion for the Beatles and Melville a passion both lonely and funny shapes her life. Each decade is illuminated by endearingly eccentric characters: an anorexic waitress falls for a wealthy college boy in the jazz age...an exuberant young nurse questions science during the Depression...a homely seamstress designs a scandalous dress in the 1950s. The Nightingales of Troy, the first fiction collection by an acclaimed American poet, creates a vividly palpable sense of time and place. Alice Fulton's memorable characters confront the deepest dilemmas with bravery and abiding love."

Language: English

Pages: 254

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Release: July 01, 2008

ISBN: 039304887X

ISBN 13: 9780393048872

The Nightingales of Troy: Stories of One Family's Century

3.6/5 ( ratings)

In 1908, Mamie Garrahan faces childbirth aided by her arsenic-eating sister-in-law Kitty, a nun who grows opium poppies, and a doctor who prescribes Bayer Heroin. "In the twentieth century, I believe there are no saints left," Mamie remarks. But her daughters and granddaughter test this notion with far-reaching consequences. Kitty's arsenic reappears sixty years later in the hands of her distraught niece. A schoolgirl's passion for the Beatles and Melville a passion both lonely and funny shapes her life. Each decade is illuminated by endearingly eccentric characters: an anorexic waitress falls for a wealthy college boy in the jazz age...an exuberant young nurse questions science during the Depression...a homely seamstress designs a scandalous dress in the 1950s. The Nightingales of Troy, the first fiction collection by an acclaimed American poet, creates a vividly palpable sense of time and place. Alice Fulton's memorable characters confront the deepest dilemmas with bravery and abiding love."

Language: English

Pages: 254

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Release: July 01, 2008

ISBN: 039304887X

ISBN 13: 9780393048872

More books from Alice Fulton

Sensual Math: Poems

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Barely Composed: Poems

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Dance Script With Electric Ballarina: POEMS

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Powers of Congress: Poems

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Tin House: Summer Issue 2008

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Peculiar Pilgrims: Stories From the Left Hand of God

Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems

The Wings, the Vines

The Nightingales of Troy: Connected Stories

The Perfect Edition Romance Manga Pokemon Limited Edition: Complete Series Pokemon Volume 1

Second Wind

Old School Tattoo Coloring Book: Inked Serenity Coloring Pages with Traditional Tattoos Art, Animals, Flowers, Mandalas, and More Classic American Designs for Adults

When: Poems

The Perfect Edition Romance Manga Pokemon Limited Edition: Complete Series Pokemon Volume 16

The Perfect Edition Romance Manga Pokemon Limited Edition: Complete Series Pokemon Volume 2

Rate this book!

Write a review?