by Gail Godwin
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Flora
From three-time National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Gail Godwin, “a luminously written, heartbreaking book”
(John Irving)
Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen’s decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of World War II. A fiercely imaginative child, Helen is desperate to keep her house intact with all its ghosts and stories. Flora, her late mother’s twenty-two-year-old first cousin, who cries at the drop of a hat, is ardently determined to do her best for Helen. Their relationship and its fallout, played against a backdrop of a lost America, will haunt Helen for the rest of her life. A story of love, regret, and the things we can’t undo.
“Flora is a beautiful examination of character and the far-reaching repercussions of our actions. Gail Godwin brings grace, honesty, and enormous intelligence to every page.” —Ann Patchett
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Publishing
From three-time National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Gail Godwin, a vibrant portrait of her writing and publishing life.
Publishing is a personal story of a writer’s hunger to be published, the pursuit of that goal, and then the long haul. Recollecting her long and storied career—which includes three National Book Award finalists and five New York Times bestsellers— Godwin maps the publishing industry over the last fifty years, a time of great upheaval and ingenuity. Her eloquent memoir is illuminated by Frances Halsband’s evocative black-and-white line drawings throughout. There have been memoirs about writing and memoirs about being an editor, but there is no other book quite like Publishing for aspiring writers and book lovers everywhere.
“You don’t have to have followed Godwin’s career as a reader either, though the millions who have will be treated to a look behind the scenes.” –The New York Times Book Review
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First published 2017
This electronic edition published in April 2017
© Gail Godwin, 2017
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ISBN: HB: 978-1-63286-704-9
ePub: 978-1-63286-706-3
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Godwin, Gail, author.
Title: Grief cottage : a novel / Gail Godwin.
Description: New York : Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016036527| ISBN 9781632867049 (hardback) | ISBN 9781632867063 (ebook)
Subjects: | BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Romance / Gothic.Classification: LCC PS3557.O315 G75 2017 | DDC 813/.54—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016036527
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