Vera: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (588 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0991214994 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In glimmering prose by turns tender, sexy and madcap, Gabrielle Glancy has invented a new kind of novel: a love story of ideas, a lyrical romp, a faux mystery with genuine heart. -- Clifford Chase, Author of Winkie
Beautiful Novel Nicole A beautiful novel, full of poetry, layered like a collage. The narrator has become obsessed with Vera, a young Russian woman who may or may not be the great-great granddaughter of Sigmund Freud. The mysterious Vera torments and seduces. She leaves cryptic messages, my favorite of which is a winning lottery . "Unlike any other" according to tina. Vera is a novel unlike any other I have read. It defies genre, blurring the line between fiction and non-fiction, prose and poetry. Gabrielle Glancy holds nothing back with her narration, sharing every intimate detail of the narrator's thoughts and experiences, until the reader is fully immersed in her sear. Don't Read While Walking Don’t start reading this book while walking, or you may stroll right into a pole. A story of hunting for something in yourself you can’t quite find, an exquisite adventure. Quirky, spirited - you may snort out loud. A fine piece of work.
Winner of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in fiction, Glancy was also a finalist for Yale Younger Poets, The Walt Whitman Award and the Colorado Prize. With a knack for knowing just the right formula to help high school students succeed where they have struggled and get in where they want
Pocket Books rejected the book for being "too literary, on one hand, and too sexy on the other," while Clifford Chase calls it, "A new kind of novel: a love story of ideas, a lyrical romp, a faux mystery with genuine heart." We're not in 1999 anymore. Vera has finally come out.Part Don Quixote bubbling dreamer, part reckless detective, the narrator of Vera pilots her way through a murky urban terrain, in search of love and answers. What she discovers in a 1990's San Francisco, stuck somewhere between AIDS and 9/11, is not what she set out to find.. It's kinky. And when he/she/it/we/they first made the rounds, the publishing world thought Vera sizzled too much to take a chance on it. It's trans