Three of Us A Family Story

Name: Three of Us A Family Story
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ISBN: 9780307278937

ISBN-10: 030727893X

ISBN-13: 9780307278937

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Authors: Julia Blackburn

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This is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn; her father, Thomas; and her mother, Rosalie. Thomas was a poet and an alcoholic who for many years was addicted to barbiturates, which would often make him violent. Rosalie, a painter, was sociable and flirtatious; she treated Julia as her sister, her confidante, and eventually as her deadly sexual rival. After Julia's parents divorced, her mother took in lodgers, always men, on the understanding that each would become her lover. When one of the lodgers started an affair with Julia, Rosalie was devastated; when he later committed suicide, the relationship between mother and daughter was shattered irrevocable. Or so it seems until the…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/14/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Julia Blackburn has written six books of non-fiction, a family memoir, The Three of Us, which won the 2009 J.R. Ackerley Award, and two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper's Companions, both of which were shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She lives in Suffolk and Italy.