A Northern Light.
by Jennifer Donnelly
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0152053107
- ISBN 13
- 9780152053109
- Seller
-
Peninsula, Ohio, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Synopsis
Mattie Gokey has a word for everything. She collects words, stores them up as a way of fending off the hard truths of her life, the truths that she can't write down in stories. The fresh pain of her mother's death. The burden of raising her sisters while her father struggles over his brokeback farm. The mad welter of feelings Mattie has for handsome but dull Royal Loomis, who says he wants to marry her. And the secret dreams that keep her going--visions of finishing high school, going to college in New York City, becoming a writer. Yet when the drowned body of a young woman turns up at the hotel where Mattie works, all her words are useless. But in the dead woman's letters, Mattie again finds her voice, and a determination to live her own life. Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, this coming-of-age novel effortlessly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, and real, and wholly original.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Cuyahoga Valley Book Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16934
- Title
- A Northern Light.
- Author
- Jennifer Donnelly
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0152053107
- ISBN 13
- 9780152053109
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Orlando, Florida, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2003
Terms of Sale
Cuyahoga Valley Book Company
All books are 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Books ship within 24 hours of payment.
About the Seller
Cuyahoga Valley Book Company
About Cuyahoga Valley Book Company
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...