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Constance: A Novel

Constance: A Novel

Constance: A Novel
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Constance: A Novel Hardback - 2013 - 1st Edition

by McGrath, Patrick

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Bloomsbury USA, 2013-04-02. 1. hardcover. Used: Good. 6.03x0.89x8.42. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy.
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  • Title Constance: A Novel
  • Author McGrath, Patrick
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used: Good
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury USA, New York
  • Publication date 2013-04-02
  • Bookseller's Inventory # SONG1608199436
  • ISBN 9781608199433 / 1608199436
  • Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.42 x 6.03 x 0.89 in (21.39 x 15.32 x 2.26 cm)
  • Size 6.03x0.89x8.42
  • Category Fiction - Psychological Suspense
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, New York (N.Y.)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2012025657
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

The cool, beautiful Constance Schuyler lives alone in Manhattan in the early 1960s. At a literary party, she meets Sidney Klein, a professor of poetry twenty years her senior. Sidney is a single father with a poor marital record, and he pursues Constance with relentless determination. Eventually she surrenders, accepts his marriage proposal, and moves, with some dread, into his dark, book-filled apartment.

She can't settle in. She's tortured by memories of the bitterly unhappy childhood she spent with her father in a dilapidated house upstate. When she learns devastating new information about that past, Constance's fragile psyche suffers a profound shock. Her marriage, already tottering, threatens to collapse completely. Frightened, desperate and alone, Constance makes a disastrous decision, then looks on as her world rapidly falls apart. Her only consolation, as the city swelters in an interminable heat wave, is the friendship of Sidney's son Howard, a strange, delicate child, not unlike Constance herself.

The story of a marriage in crisis and a family haunted by trauma, Constance is also a tale of resilience and loyalty, and of the moral inspiration that can lead even the most lost of souls back to the light.

About the author

Patrick McGrath is the author of several critically acclaimed novels, including Asylum, Martha Peake, Port Mungo, Trauma, and Spider, adapted into a 2002 David Cronenberg film. Born in London, McGrath lives in New Yor

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