A bigamist's daughter
By: Alice McDermott
Edition: First Picador edition.
Publisher: PICADOR, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780312573492
Subjects: Fathers and daughters; Vanity presses; Man-woman relationships; Women editors; Authors and publishers; FICTION / Literary; Fiction
Description: "The New York Times Bestselling Author of After This and Charming Billy. Elizabeth Connelly, editor at a New York vanity press, sells the dream of publication (admittedly, to writers of questionable talent). Stories of true emotional depth rarely cross her desk. But when a young writer named Tupper Daniels walks in, bearing an unfinished novel, Elizabeth is drawn to both the novelist and his story--a lyrical tale about a man in love with more than one woman at once. Tupper's manuscript unlocks memories of her own secretive father, who himself may have been a bigamist. As Elizabeth and Tupper search for the perfect dénouement, their affair, too, approaches a most unexpected and poignant coda. A brilliant debut from one of our most celebrated authors, A Bigamist's Daughter is 'a wise, sad, witty novel about men and women, God, hope, love, illusion, and fiction itself' (Newsweek)"--