Jesse Lee Kercheval

My Life as a Silent Movie (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

After a tragic loss, an American woman investigates her birth family in Paris: "The novel's twists and turns are wonderfully unexpected" (Emma Straub, author of Modern Lovers). In her early forties, Emma has recently lost her husband and daughter to a tragic auto accident. When her elderly aunt visits her Indiana home to provide comfort, and instead blurts out the news that Emma was adopted, a new kind of shock sets in. Soon, a still-mourning Emma finds herself flying to Paris, where she will discover the twin brother whose existence she never knew about, and the identity of her birth parents-a White Russian film star of the 1920s and a French Stalinist. A story about identity and the relationship between art and life, My Life as a Silent Movie is "a beautiful, evocative novel [that] melds the magic of old movies with the redemptive power of family" (Jonis Agee,author of The Bones of Paradise). "In this sharply drawn chronicle of grief, a woman reassembles her identity through her father's art and her brother's tenuous offer of a new life... Kercheval delves deeply into the rawest of emotions and the most wrenching of choices, richly detailing each twist and turn with grace." - Kirkus Reviews

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780253010254
• Artikelnr.: 39609587

Autorenporträt

Jesse Lee Kercheval is author of 12 books including Brazil, winner of the Ruthanne Wiley Memorial Novella Award; the poetry collection Cinema Muto, winner of the Crab Orchard Open Selection Award; and The Alice Stories, winner of the Prairie Schooner Fiction Book Prize. She teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin.