[bksvol-discuss] Re: more on Hungers Brides
- From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:34:39 -0500
Oh, boy! I just can't wait, just can't wait! to have someone Else scan it.
<grin>
On the other hand, buy me an Optiplex or whatever it's called and I'll gladly
do it.
<grin>
----- Original Message -----
From: Amber Wallenstein
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 12:09 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] more on Hungers Brides
For anyone who wants to know what this book is about, read below. It sounds
really good.
On a frigid winter's night, a man escapes from an apartment in which a young
woman lies bleeding. In his hands he clutches a box he has found there. He
is Donald Gregory, a once-respected college professor and serial adulterer,
whose last affair has left his career in ruins. She is Beulah Limosneros, one
of his students and for a brief time his lover. She had disappeared into
Mexico two years earlier, following her obsession with Sor Juana Inis de la
Cruz,
who was born in 1648, entered a convent at age nineteen, and became the
greatest poet of her time, only to die of plague in 1695. As a police
investigation
closes in around Gregory, he examines the box's contents, fearful of
incriminating evidence Beulah may have against him -- translated poems of Sor
Juana,
a travel journal, research notes on the Spanish conquest of the Americas and
the Inquisition, diary entries concerning him, and a strange manuscript about
Sor Juana. Based on the life of one of literature's most compelling figures,
Paul Anderson's astonishing debut unveils a great poet's withdrawal from the
world who at the height of her creative powers signs a vow of contrition in
her own blood.
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