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The Silver Screen

By Maureen Howard

By Maureen Howard

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Jul 26, 2005 | ISBN 9781440626685

The Silver Screen by Maureen Howard
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Jul 26, 2005 | ISBN 9781440626685

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About The Silver Screen

Maureen Howard deepens her inquiry into the meeting place of history and family in this stunning and accessible novel. Isabel Murphy renounced silent-film stardom to raise a family in Rhode Island. Now she is dead at 90 and her children are trying to break free of the lives she has dealt them. Joe, a Jesuit priest, has failed at love and the healing of souls. Stodgy Rita has found late happiness with a gangster who has turned state’s evidence. And Gemma, Isabel’s honorary child, has grown up to experience a strange celebrity as a photographer. A darkly comic story of guilt, love, and forgiveness, The Silver Screen is luminous in its intelligence and empathy.

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About Maureen Howard

Maureen Howard is the author of seven novels, including Grace Abounding, Expensive Habits, and Natural History, all of which were nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award. She has taught at a number of American universities, including Columbia, Princeton, Amherst, and Yale,… More about Maureen Howard

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Category: Literary Fiction

Ebook | $5.99
Published by Penguin Books
Jul 26, 2005 | 256 Pages | ISBN 9781440626685

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