Lamb in Love
by Carrie Brown
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- as new
- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 1565122038
- ISBN 13
- 9781565122031
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Contents appear as unopened, unread & unblemished in fine black boards. DJ displays moderate surface/edge/wear, as shown, with repaired closed tear.
In the tiny English village of Hursley, two lifelong acquaintances have never given each other a second glance. Until, on the very night of man's first moon landing, a precipitous passion alights on their middle-aged existence. Out for a stroll, Norris Lamb--postmaster, stamp collector, and church organist--spies spinster Vida Stephen dancing with glorious, uncharacteristic abandon by the moonlit fountain of the mansion where she tends the mute, retarded son of an absent employer. Norris senses a buried bravado and romance, a fragility and loneliness, that match his own. And he sets out, covertly, to woo her.
But both Norris and Vida are innocents in this endeavor. His courtship blunders down many wrong turns before it finds its unlooked-for catalyst in Manford, the gentle young man who is Vida's charge...and blossoms as a force to change three lives.
In luminous prose laced with quiet humor, Lamb in Love shows how love transforms the most ordinary and imperfect mortals.
Vida, unaware that Norris is in the throes of a wild--but unvoiced--passion, must herself decide whether to remain in the small English village where she has lived her entire life, or strike out on her own in search of a grand adventure.
Watching these two people surprised by love is Manford, the young disabled man who has been in Vida's charge for the last twenty years. Possessed of a strange and gentle intelligence, it is through Manford that Norris and Vida finally come to recognize each other and themselves. Heartwarming, madcap, utterly beautiful, LAMB IN LOVE celebrates the strange and mysterious brilliance that is love. And it confirms Carrie Brown's status as an important and luminous talent.
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Synopsis
Carrie Brown was awarded the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for her first novel, Rose's Garden . She lives in Sweet Briar, Virginia, with her husband and their three young children, and teaches fiction at Sweet Briar College.
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- Eve's Reads (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #3331-41119
- Title
- Lamb in Love
- Author
- Carrie Brown
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Unstated, Presumed 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1565122038
- ISBN 13
- 9781565122031
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill, NC
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Comtemporary Fcition
- Size
- 336 Pages
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