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From the internationally bestselling author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World, a heartfelt coming-of-age story that Karen Joy Fowler calls "a timeless classic...a book you will read and reread."
Jane Hamilton lives, works, and writes in an orchard farmhouse in Wisconsin. Her short stories have appeared in Harper's magazine. Her first novel, The Book of Ruth, won the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel and was a selection of the Oprah Book Club.
Jane Hamilton, award-winning author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World brings us a rich and loving novel about a non-traditional family in the aftermath of a terrible accident. When Aaron Maciver’s beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers a head injury in a bicycle crash, she is left with... Read More.
Every novel is very much like a letter to a shadowy person or perhaps a group, solemn and still, just beyond our vision. It is strange then, and often wonderful, to hear from a reader, to have the unknowable, the faceless, come into focus.
Jane Hamilton: After 9/11 it no longer seemed terribly important or compelling to write domestic novels in which children go to therapy and make peace with their families or wives get empowered, leave their husbands, and meet a better man.
Jane Hamilton has crafted a lyrical family drama, and writes in beautiful, languid, descriptive sentences. Her vividly drawn characters seem familiar and real, like so many Polaroid snapshots." —Redbook
The Excellent Lombards. Written by Jane Hamilton. Category: Fiction. Publisher: Grand Central Publishing. Format: Hardcover: 288 pages. Pub Date: April 19, 2016. Price: $26.00. ISBN: 978-1455564224 (455564217) ABOUT THIS BOOK.
about the author Jane Hamilton lives, works, and writes in an orchard farmhouse in Rochester, Wisconsin. Her first novel, The Book of Ruth , won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was a selection of Oprah's Book Club®.
The narrator of Jane Hamilton’s sensational first novel is a holy lusty innocent.” –Vogue. “A sly and wistful, if harrowing, human comedy. Hamilton is a new and original voice in fiction and one well worth listening to.” –Boston Sunday Globe.
Together, Laura and Charlie craft florid, strangely intimate messages that entice Jenna in an unexpected way. Their project quickly spins out of control with hilarious, poignant, and memorable results. In a story that is Le Divorce meets The Love Letter, Hamilton’s comedic voice is in full flower.