Nine Island
By: Jane Alison
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781936787128
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Fiction
Description: Autobiographical novel told by J, a woman who lives in a glass tower on one of Miami Beach's lush Venetian Islands. After decades of disaster with men, she is trying to decide whether to withdraw forever from romantic love. Having just returned to Miami from a monthlong reunion with an old flame, "Sir Gold," and a visit to her fragile mother, J begins translating Ovid's magical stories.