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010 $a 2017288394
020 $a9781632865434 (hbk.) :$cNT$945
040 $aTWTNM$beng$dTWTNM
050 00$aPR6063.A2498$bA6 2017
082 04$a823.914$222
100 1 $aMacLeod, Alison,$d1964-$eauthor.
245 10$aAll the beloved ghosts /$cAlison MacLeod.
250 $aFirst U.S. edition.
260 $aNew York :$bBloomsbury,$c2017.
300 $a237 p. ;$c22 cm.
505 00$tThe thaw --$tSolo, a cappella --$tThe heart of Denis Noble --$tSylvia wears pink in the underworld --$tThere are precious things --$tOscillate wildly --$tDreaming Diana : twelve frames --$tIn praise of radical fish --$tImagining Chekhov.$tWoman with little pug ;$tChehov's telescope ;$tThe death of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov --$tHow to make a citizen's arrest --$tWe are Methodists --$tAll the beloved ghosts.
520 $a"A woman emerging from mourning spends her savings on a fur coat, a coat she will wear to a dance that will change her life. A professor of cardiovascular physiology lingers on the cusp of consciousness as he waits for his new heartto be delivered, still beating, from another body--and is carried on a tidal wave of memories to an attic room half a century ago. Visiting Sylvia Plath's grave in Yorkshire, the author imagines a conversation with the poet, a fellow NorthAmerican who settled in grey England. She reflects on the treasured photograph of Princess Diana she took as a teenager, one of a multitude taken during a life cut short. And at Charleston, Angelica Garnett, child of the Bloomsbury group, is overpowered by echoes of the past; by all the beloved ghosts that spring to life before her eyes. MacLeod's characters hover on the border of life and death, where memory is most vivid and the present most elusive. Moving from the London riots of 2011 to 1920s Nova Scotia, from Oscar Wilde's grave to the Brighton Pier, these exquisitely formed stories capture the small tragedies and profound truths of existence."--Amazon.com.
650 0$aShort stories, English.