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Mourning Ruby: 6 Paperback - 2005
by Helen Dunmore
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About thirty years ago, a mother laid her newborn baby in a shoebox and left it in the backyard of an Italian restaurant. Now the baby, Rebecca, is a mother herself. A child of no one and nowhere, she has created her own unorthodox but tender family. Then this hopeful life is dealt a blow that could shatter even the strongest of ties. Now, Rebecca must face the future by delving into her mysterious past. Dunmore's most ambitious work to date, Mourning Ruby is a meditation on memory and history-both personal and public. It's an unforgettable tale of love, loss, and the transcendent power of storytelling itself.
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More than thirty years ago, a mother laid her newborn baby in a shoebox and left it by the bins in the backyard of an Italian restaurant. Now the baby, Rebecca, is a mother herself, and she and her husband Adam are about to experience the greatest tragedy parents can face. Like a Russian doll, this novel opens to reveal a brilliant richness of stories locked within.MOURNING RUBY is Helen Dunmore's most ambitious novel to date, hugely moving and strongly plotted, about memory and history - both personal and public - about love, loss and mourning, and ultimately about the most important relationship in any novel - that of the reader to the writer.
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- Title Mourning Ruby: 6
- Author Helen Dunmore
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Berkley Publishing Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Publication date 2005-02-01
- ISBN 9780425200193 / 0425200191
- Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.14 x 0.78 in (20.27 x 13.06 x 1.98 cm)
- Category Fiction - General
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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