The Glass Ocean - Baker, Lori
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In this story of becoming, flamehaired, six-foot-two in stocking feet, newly orphaned Carlotta Dell'oro recounts the lives of her parentssolitary glassmaker Leopoldo Dell'oro and beautiful, unreachable Clotilde Girard, who met on an expedition aboard the Narcissus in 1841and discovers in their loves and losses, their omissions and obsessions, the circumstances of her abandonment and the weight of her inheritance. With a master artisan's patience and exquisite craft, debut novelist Lori Baker has created a gemlike Victorian world, a place wheremistakes of the past reappear in the future, art can destroy, and family is not to be trusted.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
In this story of becoming, flamehaired, six-foot-two in stocking feet, newly orphaned Carlotta Dell'oro recounts the lives of her parentssolitary glassmaker Leopoldo Dell'oro and beautiful, unreachable Clotilde Girard, who met on an expedition aboard the Narcissus in 1841and discovers in their loves and losses, their omissions and obsessions, the circumstances of her abandonment and the weight of her inheritance. With a master artisan's patience and exquisite craft, debut novelist Lori Baker has created a gemlike Victorian world, a place wheremistakes of the past reappear in the future, art can destroy, and family is not to be trusted.
Autorenporträt
Lori Baker is the author of Crash and Tell: Stories; Crazy Water: Six Fictions, which won the Mamdouha S. Bobst Literary Award; and Scraps. She has taught fiction writing, journalism, and composition at Brown University, Boston College, and Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. She lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island.