The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay
Author: Jensen, Beverly
ISBN: 9780143119296
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 30 Aug 2011
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback / softback
Published posthumously through the efforts of Beverly Jensen's many supporters, this widely acclaimed novel-in-stories offers a richly textured portrait of a bygone era. In 1916, Idella and Avis Hillock live on the edge of a chilly bluff in New Brunswick-a barren world of potato farms and lobster traps, rough men, hard work, and baffling beauty. From "Gone," the heartbreaking account of the crisis that changed their lives forever, through "Wake," a darkly comic saga of funeral plans gone awry, i>The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay/i> beautifully charts the trajectory of the Hillocks' divergent lives against the background of a lost slice of Americana.
ISBN: 9780143119296
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 30 Aug 2011
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback / softback
Published posthumously through the efforts of Beverly Jensen's many supporters, this widely acclaimed novel-in-stories offers a richly textured portrait of a bygone era. In 1916, Idella and Avis Hillock live on the edge of a chilly bluff in New Brunswick-a barren world of potato farms and lobster traps, rough men, hard work, and baffling beauty. From "Gone," the heartbreaking account of the crisis that changed their lives forever, through "Wake," a darkly comic saga of funeral plans gone awry, i>The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay/i> beautifully charts the trajectory of the Hillocks' divergent lives against the background of a lost slice of Americana.
