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Swan Song An Odyssey Lisa Alther Hardcover Book Fiction Novel

Description: A new novel, funny, wise, moving, true, as only Lisa Alther can write ("she had me laughing at 4 in the morning" —Doris Lessing), set on a cruise ship, about a woman, a doctor in charge of the ship's clinic, recovering from the loss of her longtime female lover, a much-admired writer, and coping with the high-wire madcappery of cruise ship life as she reckons with her past and feels her way into the future. Dr. Jessie Drake, in her mid-sixties, following the sudden deaths of her parents and Kat, her partner of twenty years, has fled the Vermont life she has known for decades. In an effort to escape the oppressive constancy of grief, she accepts a job from an old flame from her residency in New York City's Roosevelt Hospital, and agrees to assist Ben as the ship's doctor on a British liner. Jessie boards in Hong Kong, and, as the Amphitrite sails throughout Southeast Asia and the Middle East, cruise ship antics ensue. Jessie is lulled back into a long-ago romance with the ship's co-doctor, and both she and her new/old beau become enmeshed with the ship's lead (female) singer/entertainer. Among the passengers who fling socialized behavior aside on the high seas: a former Florida beauty queen (Miss Florida Power and Light) on a second honeymoon with her husband, as she causes high-velocity scandal, while juggling onboard affairs with a suicidal golf pro, and a defrocked priest hired as one of the liner's gentleman hosts, until she vanishes—poof!—from the ship off the coast of Portugal . . . As the ship sails through the Gulf of Aden and into a possible hijacking by Somali pirates, Jessie retreats into her lover's journals, written during her final months, journals filled with sketches of potential characters, observations on life and love—as well as drafts of a long new poem in progress, "Swan Song," that seems to be about being in love with someone else, someone new. As Jessie's grief turns to suspicion about the woman she thought she knew so well, her illumination of the poem's meaning begins to lift the constraints of the past and make clear the way toward the future. Condition: New

Price: 10.92 USD

Location: Union City, Georgia

End Time: 2024-12-01T08:07:09.000Z

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Restocking Fee: No

Return shipping will be paid by: Seller

All returns accepted: Returns Accepted

Item must be returned within: 30 Days

Refund will be given as: Money Back

Type: Novel

Ex Libris: No

Narrative Type: Fiction

Inscribed: No

Vintage: No

Book Title: Swan Song : an Odyssey

Number of Pages: 240 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Topic: Contemporary Women, Literary

Item Height: 0.9 in

Publication Year: 2020

Genre: Fiction

Item Weight: 14 Oz

Item Length: 8.5 in

Author: Lisa Alther

Item Width: 5.9 in

Format: Hardcover

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