| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (15hr., 07 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Hillary Huber. |
| Summary |
A sharp and bitingly funny novel about a professor whose calm-ish midwestern life gives way to a vortex of crises-and her attempts to salvage the pieces without going to pieces herself. In the space of a few torrid months on the Iowa prairie, Phillipa Maakestad-long-married theater professor and mother of an unstable daughter-grapples with a life turned upside down. After falling headlong into a passionate affair during a semester spent teaching in Ohio, Phillipa returns home to Iowa for her daughter Ginny's wedding. There, Phillipa must endure (among other things) a wedding-day tornado, a menace of a mother-in-law who may or may not have been a Nazi collaborator, and the tragicomic revenge fantasies of her heretofore docile husband. Naturally, she does what any newly liberated woman would do: she takes a match to her life on the prairie and then steps back to survey the wreckage. Set in the seething political climate of a contentious election, Thisbe Nissen's new novel is sexy, smart, and razor-sharp-a freight train barreling through the heart of the land and the land of the heart. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Life change events -- Fiction.
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Self-actualization (Psychology) in women -- Fiction.
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Iowa -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Huber, Hillary, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982491093 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982491094 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12024532 |
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