The Night Sky Contributor(s): Morris, Mary (Author) |
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ISBN: 031215609X ISBN-13: 9780312156091 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $18.90 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1997 Annotation: Haunted by the memory of the mother who abandoned her at age seven, jewelry designer and artist Ivy Slovak recalls the years spent with her loving, itinerant father, wandering the desert, hoping to find the troubled, beautiful woman who had left them both. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 97000799 |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.52" W x 8.5" (0.86 lbs) 288 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The Night Sky is a moving novel about the solitary moral courage of a women raising a child alone and the complex resilience of family. Ivy Slovak is a jewelry designer and artist whose days are absorbed by the struggle to make an unreliable paycheck cover the needs of her infant son. Hungry for the freedom of the world outside her window, Ivy is haunted by the memory of her mother, who abandoned her when she was seven years old. She recalls the years spent with her loving but itinerant father, wandering the desert, hoping somehow to find the troubled, beautiful woman who had left them both. With quiet eloquence and deep compassion, The Night Sky establishes Morris as one of contemporary American literature's foremost chroniclers of the secrets and strengths of the human spirit. |
Contributor Bio(s): Morris, Mary: - Mary Morris is the author of twelve books (including Acts of God, The Night Sky, and House Arrest), three collections of short stories, including The Lifeguard, and three travel memoirs, including Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone and Angels & Aliens: A Journey West (all available from Picador). Her numerous short stories and travel essays have appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Times, and Vogue. The recipient of the Rome Prize, Morris teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter. |