Law of Falling Bodies Tapa blanda - 2015
de Jill Ciment
An unlikely, utterly beguiling love story, by the author of the highly praised Small Claims. Gloria is a modern-day "snake-oil" saleswoman, a quixotic entrepreneur who sells everything from metal detectors to aphrodisiac perfumes but whose real stock in trade is hope. She and her teenage daughter, Kim, move from town to town, until Kim falls in love with a widower 30 years her senior.
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Jill Ciment's tough, tender first novel tells an unlikely, utterly beguiling love story. Both laugh-out-loud funny and heartachingly poignant, it is not only a delicate, loving portrayal of a daughter's fierce devotion to her wildly unconventional mother, but a surprisingly magical story of a true May/December relationship. Gloria is a modern-day "snake oil" saleswoman, a quixotic entrepreneur who sells everything from metal detectors to aphrodisiac perfumes but whose real stock-in-trade is hope. "I am not dealing with the banal arithmetic of earning a couple of bucks", she says, "I am dealing with the aerodynamics of human dreams". She and her teenage daughter, Kim, drive throughout the Southwest, pulling their trailer home from town to town, just one step ahead of the postmaster general ("I imagined him as a successful mailman with epaulets") and the FDA. It is the only world Kim has ever known - until Arthur literally comes crashing into their lives, demolishing the trailer and taking Kim's heart hostage. As the young girl and the gentle widower thirty years her senior begin to fall in love, a new home no less improbable than the first takes shape - an embodiment of the magic Gloria has tried all her life to peddle in a bottle. Meanwhile, Gloria has a vision in a car wash and launches into the scheme she hopes will bring her greatest triumph. . . By turns lyrical, droll, and hauntingly sad, this larger-than-life love story distills the ingredients of the only aphrodisiac that really works: one part mad dream, one part chance, and three parts genuine humanity.
Detalles
- Título Law of Falling Bodies
- Autor Jill Ciment
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Páginas 192
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Simon & Schuster
- Fecha de publicación 2015-05-02
- ISBN 9781501123832 / 1501123831
- Peso 0.4 libras (0.18 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 pulgadas (21.34 x 13.97 x 1.52 cm)
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Temas
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Mothers and daughters, Romance fiction
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 92027120
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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