Our lady of the prairie
(Book)
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
ISBN
1328662071, 9781328662071
Physical Desc
357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Status
Adult Fiction (3rd floor)
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
1328662071, 9781328662071
Notes
General Note
"A novel"--Jacket.
Description
"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"-- After falling headlong into a passionate affair during a semester spent teaching in Ohio, theater professor Phillipa Maakestad returns home to Iowa for her daughter Ginny's wedding. She faces 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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Nissen, T. (2018). Our lady of the prairie . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Nissen, Thisbe, 1972-. 2018. Our Lady of the Prairie. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Nissen, Thisbe, 1972-. Our Lady of the Prairie Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Nissen, Thisbe. Our Lady of the Prairie Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
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