In the fictional North Carolina mountain town at the heart of Gail Godwin's Flora, a polio scare takes the life of one child and paralyzes another while the community scrambles to contain the disease. These tragedies, which form part of the cultural fabric of Godwin's fictional world, echo real events that took place in rural North Carolina in the s, when the polio epidemic was peaking there. Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Gail Godwin's penetrating and haunting narrative about intimacy and loss and remorse, set against a background of world-changing events. Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of World War II. A Novel Excerpt. by Gail Godwin. I was beginning to see how the whole summer was going to be. Meals and Flora. Flora and meals. My father was away working at Oak Ridge, and we couldn’t go anywhere, and nobody could come to us. To escape Flora, who was already preparing supper, though we had hardly finished with lunch, I had gone to the garage to sit in the car abandoned after my grandmother .
bltadwin.ru: Flora () by Gail Godwin and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Editorial Reviews. Gail Godwin's 14th novel, Flora, offers a veritable taxonomy of orphans: from the conventional, both-parents-died variety to the quasi-orphan (one parent still nominally in the picture) to the elective orphan (a runaway) to the reverse-orphan (a parent unmoored by the loss of a child). In fact, as the story unfolds, we realize it's populated almost exclusively by orphans of. On the surface, Gail Godwin's luminous Flora is a quiet, simple novel about a few weeks spent in near isolation in the North Carolina mountains in the summer of Under the surface, however, run currents connecting the lives of the two main characters to those of dozens of others, present and especially past.
From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Gail Godwin, "a luminously written, heartbreaking book" (John Irving).Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of World War II. Flora Gail Godwin, Bloomsbury pp. ISBN Summary Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of World War II. Gail Godwin's 14th novel, Flora, offers a veritable taxonomy of orphans: from the conventional, both-parents-died variety to the quasi-orphan (one parent still nominally in the picture) to the elective orphan (a runaway) to the reverse-orphan (a parent unmoored by the loss of a child). In fact, as the story unfolds, we realize it's populated almost exclusively by orphans of different stripes.
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