Disappearing Ingenue
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- Synopsis
- This wildly imaginative collection presents the misadventures of unlikely heroine Eleanor Stoddard as she tries to lead an exemplary life but finds that things just keep going awry. In the summer after sixth grade, she dreams of being as courageous as Anne Frank. As a teenager, her sudden devotion to Catholicism coincides with her crush on a nun. As a suburban housewife who suspects her husband of having an affair, she imitates Nancy Drew to try to solve her own personal mystery. And as a middle-aged woman, she embarks on a trek through Central America accompanied by a rescued laboratory gorilla. While Eleanor makes her way through a whirlwind of adventures with life and love in which she is constantly reinventing her identity and rethinking her priorities, she manages to become a first-rate student, a published poet, and a loyal mother. Each story offers a glimpse into her familiar and charmingly odd journey, and she comes hilariously to life in these disarming tales.From the Trade Paperback edition. to Nancy Drew for help when she suspects that her husband may be cheating on her. In the Pushcart Prize--winning "Funktionslust," the final story in this collection, Eleanor does get her childhood wish. . . but not exactly in the way she imagined. Traveling through Central America with a rescued laboratory gorilla, "Like a rogue saint, Eleanor Stoddard was sighted here and there, most often by the innocent."Disappearing Ingenue presents a heroine whose adventures with life and love are wildly imaginative. From the Hardcover edition.
- Copyright:
- 2002
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781400075850
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780385721899
- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 04/05/14
- Copyrighted By:
- Melissa Pritchard
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.