Sister Noon: A Novel - Hardcover

Fowler, Karen Joy

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1,169 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399147500 ISBN 13: 9780399147500

Publisher: Putnam Pub Group, 2001

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A mystery set during the Gilded Age in turn-of-the-century San Francisco chronicles Lizzie Hayes�s rebellious odyssey away from the pretensions of the city's social elite and her journey toward liberation and passion, with the help of Mary Ellen Pleasant. 15,000 first printing.

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Review:

"A playful, mysterious, highly imaginative narrative set in the San Francisco of the 1890's...Robust, sly, witty, elegant, unexpected and never, ever, boring." --Margot Livesey, The New York Times Book Review

"Sister Noon is funny, lyrical, spooky, inspired . . . A work of enchanting rumination-and one of the year's best reads." --The Seattle Times

"Fowler's prose is full of shimmering melancholy, and a ruminative irony that brings her characters and their world alive in the most unexpected ways...a dazzling book." --Jonathan Lethem

-A playful, mysterious, highly imaginative narrative set in the San Francisco of the 1890's...Robust, sly, witty, elegant, unexpected and never, ever, boring.- --Margot Livesey, The New York Times Book Review

-Sister Noon is funny, lyrical, spooky, inspired . . . A work of enchanting rumination-and one of the year's best reads.- --The Seattle Times

-Fowler's prose is full of shimmering melancholy, and a ruminative irony that brings her characters and their world alive in the most unexpected ways...a dazzling book.- --Jonathan Lethem

Book Description:

By the bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Sister Noon is the story of Lizzie Hayes, whose dull life is about to be shaken up by a mysterious and powerful woman

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