Alice Fantastic A Novel
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Erscheinungsdatum
01.03.2019
Verlag
Akashic BooksSeitenzahl
249 (Printausgabe)
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458 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781617750052
An "entertaining" novel about a family of three women "navigating relationships, a half-dozen lovers and innumerable dogs" (
Publishers Weekly).
Alice Hunter is a thirty-six-year-old professional gambler living in Queens, New York. She is modestly successful as a horseplayer and enjoys her work. Though she is avidly pursued by her lover, Clayton, whom she refers to as The Big Oaf, Alice's real closest companion is a small spotted dog, and Alice likes it that way.
When Clayton's overzealousness leads Alice to ask one of her racetrack cronies to intimidate him into leaving her, a few things go wrong-and Alice turns to her half-sister Eloise, a toy maker whose own lover has just been killed in a freak accident. Despite their gruffness with each other, there is fierce love among Alice, Eloise, and their unconventional mother, Kimberly-but it will take the accidental discovery of an awful secret to truly bring three eccentric women, seventeen dogs, and assorted lovers together.
"The storytelling has vitality and a spirit of rebellion." -
The New York Times
"There is about Maggie Estep's work a directness, a clear determination-a drive to cut through, to break through, to claw through-that is impressive." -A. M. Homes, author of
May We Be Forgiven
Publishers Weekly).
Alice Hunter is a thirty-six-year-old professional gambler living in Queens, New York. She is modestly successful as a horseplayer and enjoys her work. Though she is avidly pursued by her lover, Clayton, whom she refers to as The Big Oaf, Alice's real closest companion is a small spotted dog, and Alice likes it that way.
When Clayton's overzealousness leads Alice to ask one of her racetrack cronies to intimidate him into leaving her, a few things go wrong-and Alice turns to her half-sister Eloise, a toy maker whose own lover has just been killed in a freak accident. Despite their gruffness with each other, there is fierce love among Alice, Eloise, and their unconventional mother, Kimberly-but it will take the accidental discovery of an awful secret to truly bring three eccentric women, seventeen dogs, and assorted lovers together.
"The storytelling has vitality and a spirit of rebellion." -
The New York Times
"There is about Maggie Estep's work a directness, a clear determination-a drive to cut through, to break through, to claw through-that is impressive." -A. M. Homes, author of
May We Be Forgiven
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