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Great Divorce by Valerie Martin (2003, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100375727183

ISBN-139780375727184

eBay Product ID (ePID)2449888

Product Key Features

Book TitleGreat Divorce

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, Literary

Publication Year2003

GenreFiction

AuthorValerie Martin

Book SeriesVintage Contemporaries Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight9.6 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Reviews" The Great Divorce is the kind of fiction that can briefly refocus and broaden the scope of what we notice about the world." -Francine Prose, Los Angeles Times "A subtly cadenced novel of racial and sexual transgressions." -Joyce Carol Oates "The generosity of Martin's understanding opens every character to the full, astounding range of human possibility. Her revelations build mesmerizing excitement, a surprising kindness, and an unexpected sanity in the darkness." -Katherine Dunn, The Washington Post Book World "The prose is dreamlike but vivid. . . . It is beautifully written, and evokes New Orleans, both as a real place and as a fevered fantasy." - The Philadelphia Inquirer "Compulsively readable, a great mixture of psychological insight and good storytelling." - Chicago Sun-Times "Completely engrossing. . . . Martin describes heartbreak and endurance while maintaining the tension of a psychological thriller. A meticulously designed, subtly executed delight." - New York Daily News "Moves with irresistible momentum, carrying us from one mysterious world to another. Martin's prose is beautifully crisp and clean." - Newsday " The Great Divorce becomes something more than the sum of its parts, an inventive and original novel of nature and humanity, freedom and captivity, love, transformation and the call of the wild." - The Orlando Sentinel "A blend of gothic horror and psychological drama. . . . An extraordinary, and endlessly mysterious, work of fiction." - Entertainment Weekly " The Great Divorce evocatively humanizes the wild nature that is just beneath the surface of us all." - Time "Sexy, absorbing and insightful . . . a great read." - People "Haunting. . . . An utterly compelling work of fiction." - The New York Times " The Great Divorce is at turns eerie, disturbing, painful and passionate, all the while honest and compelling. . .It is perhaps Martin's most provocative and resonant work." - San Francisco Chronicle "A deeply satisfying meditation on the separation between man and nature. . .Martin's fierce intelligence, her thematic concerns, here call to mind the work of Margaret Atwood and Doris Lessing." - The New Orleans Times-Picayune "Enthralling." - The Boston Globe, "Haunting. . . . An utterly compelling work of fiction." -The New York Times "The Great Divorce is at turns eerie, disturbing, painful and passionate, all the while honest and compelling. . .It is perhaps Martin's most provocative and resonant work." San Francisco Chronicle "A deeply satisfying meditation on the separation between man and nature. . .Martin's fierce intelligence, her thematic concerns, here call to mind the work of Margaret Atwood and Doris Lessing." -The Times-Picayune "The Great Divorce is the kind of fiction that can briefly refocus and broaden the scope of what we notice about the world." Francine Prose, Los Angeles Times "Enthralling." Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, The Boston Globe "The generosity of Martin's understanding opens every character to the full, astounding range of human possibility. Her revelations build mesmerizing excitement, a surprising kindness, and an unexpected sanity in the darkness." Katherine Dunn, The Washington Post Book World "The prose is dreamlike but vivid. . . . It is beautifully written, and evokes New Orleans, both as a real place and as a fevered fantasy." The Philadelphia Inquirer "Compulsively readable, a great mixture of psychological insight and good storytelling." Chicago Sun-Times "Completely engrossing. . . . Martin describes heartbreak and endurance while maintaining the tension of a psychological thriller. A meticulously designed, subtly executed delight." New York Daily News "Moves with irresistible momentum, carrying us from one mysterious world to another. Martin's prose is beautifully crisp and clean." Newsday "The Great Divorce becomes something more than the sum of its parts, an inventive and original novel of nature and humanity, freedom and captivity, love, transformation and the call of the wild." The Orlando Sentinel "A blend of gothic horror and psychological drama. . . . An extraordinary, and endlessly mysterious, work of fiction." Entertainment Weekly "The Great Divorce evocatively humanizes the wild nature that is just beneath the surface of us all." Time "Sexy, absorbing and insightful . . . a great read." People

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SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of Mary Reilly and prize-winning author of Property comes a riveting story of three women in New Orleans who must face the repercussions of sex, betrayal and the wilder side of human nature. * "Haunting.... An utterly compelling work of fiction." -- The New York Times Three surprising women, their lives riven by divorce both literal and metaphorical: Ellen Clayton, reeling from her husband's decision to leave her after twenty years, finds meaning in caring for her teenage daughters and in her work as the veterinarian at the New Orleans Zoo. Her young assistant Camille, preyed on by a series of contemptuous men, experiences bizarre episodes in which she feels herself transforming into one of the great cats in her care. And Elisabeth Boyer, a passionate Creole aristocrat trapped on her husband's antebellum plantation, finds deliverance in the form of a black leopard, a powerful, merciless ally from the wild. Their unfolding stories blur distinctions of time, class and social construct to reveal the ordinary and extraordinary measures required to make our fractured world whole., From the bestselling author of Mary Reilly and prize-winning author of Property comes a riveting story of three women in New Orleans who must face the repercussions of sex, betrayal and the wilder side of human nature. - "Haunting.... An utterly compelling work of fiction." -- The New York Times Three surprising women, their lives riven by divorce both literal and metaphorical: Ellen Clayton, reeling from her husband's decision to leave her after twenty years, finds meaning in caring for her teenage daughters and in her work as the veterinarian at the New Orleans Zoo. Her young assistant Camille, preyed on by a series of contemptuous men, experiences bizarre episodes in which she feels herself transforming into one of the great cats in her care. And Elisabeth Boyer, a passionate Creole aristocrat trapped on her husband's antebellum plantation, finds deliverance in the form of a black leopard, a powerful, merciless ally from the wild. Their unfolding stories blur distinctions of time, class and social construct to reveal the ordinary and extraordinary measures required to make our fractured world whole.