Last of Her Kind A Novel

Name: Last of Her Kind A Novel
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ISBN: 9780312425944

ISBN-10: 0312425945

ISBN-13: 9780312425944

Edition: 2007

Authors: Sigrid Nunez

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Columbia University, 1968. Ann Drayton and Georgette George meet as roommates on the first night. Ann is rich and radical; Georgette, the narrator ofThe Last of Her Kind,is leery and introverted, a child of the very poverty and strife her new friend finds so noble. The two are drawn together intensely by their differences; two years later, after a violent fight, they part ways. nbsp; When, in 1976, Ann is convicted of killing a New York cop, Georgette comes back to their shared history in search of an explanation. She finds a riddle of a life, shaped by influences more sinister and complex than any of the writ-large sixties movements. She realizes, too, how much their early encounter has…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 12/12/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.35" wide x 8.28" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Sigrid Nunez is the author of the novels Salvation City , The Last of Her Kind, A Feather on the Breath of God, and For Rouenna, among others. She has been the recipient of several awards including a Whiting Writers' Award, the Rome Prize in Literature, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship. She lives in New York City.