Special Music School – Special Music School Online Auction 2019
Auction Ends: Dec 8, 2019 10:00 PM EST

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Our Lady of the Prairie - Author Signed

Item Number
179
Estimated Value
$25 USD
Sold
$9 USD to Nellie89
Number of Bids
1  -  Bid History

Item Description

A sharp and bitingly funny novel about a professor whose calm-ish midwestern life gives way to a vortex of crises—and her attempts to salvage the pieces without going to pieces herself In the space of a few torrid months on the Iowa prairie, Phillipa Maakestad—long-married theater professor and mother of an unstable daughter—grapples with a life turned upside down. After falling headlong into a passionate affair during a semester spent teaching in Ohio, Phillipa returns home to Iowa for her daughter Ginny’s wedding. There, Phillipa must endure (among other things) a wedding-day tornado, a menace of a mother-in-law who may or may not have been a Nazi collaborator, and the tragicomic revenge fantasies of her heretofore docile husband. Naturally, she does what any newly liberated woman would do: she takes a match to her life on the prairie and then steps back to survey the wreckage. Set in the seething political climate of a contentious election,Thisbe Nissen's new novel is sexy, smart, and razor-sharp—a freight train barreling through the heart of the land and the land of the heart.

This hardback book is an Author signed, new copy of the novel, with an Our Lady of the Prairie bookmark included

Item Special Note

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Donated By:

Lisa Stump