The Resource The weird sisters, Eleanor Brown
The weird sisters, Eleanor Brown
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The item The weird sisters, Eleanor Brown represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in East Baton Rouge Parish Library.
This item is available to borrow from 5 library branches.
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- Summary
- 'See, we love each other. We just don't happen to like each other very much.' THE WEIRD SISTERS is a trenchantly observant novel about the often warring emotions between sisters. Unlucky in work, love and life, the Andreas sisters return to their childhood home, ostensibly to care for their ailing mother. But each sister has a secret she's unwilling to share -- each has come home to lick her own wounds. The Andreas family is an eccentric one. Books are their passion (a trip to the library usually solved everything), TV is something other families watched. Their father -- a renowned, eccentric professor of Shakespeare who communicates almost exclusively in Shakespearean verse -- named all three girls for great Shakespearean women -- Rose (Rosalind), Bean (Bianca), and Cordy (Cordelia); as a result, the girls find that they have a lot to live up to. With this burden, as well as others they shoulder, the Andreas sisters have a difficult time communicating with both their parents and their lovers, but especially with each other. What can the homebody and shy eldest sister, the fast-living and mysterious middle child, and the bohemian youngest sibling have in common? Why can't Rose leave her hometown for the man she loves? Why has glamorous Bean come home from New York City with her tail between her legs to the small college town she swore she'd leave as soon as she could? And why suddenly has Cordy resurfaced after years of gypsy living? Each sister has found her life nothing like she had thought it would be -- and suddenly faced with their parents' frailty and their own disappointments and setbacks, their usual quick salve of a book suddenly can't solve what ails them. To their surprise, Rose, Bean and Cordy are more similar than they ever imagined. Yet can all three escape their archetypal roots and find happiness in a normal life? As it turns out, the small town of Barnwell and their sisterly bond offer much more than they ever expected
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 527 pages
- Isbn
- 9781594135323
- Label
- The weird sisters
- Title
- The weird sisters
- Statement of responsibility
- Eleanor Brown
- Subject
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- truePeople with cancer
- Terminally ill parents -- Fiction
- trueDomestic fiction
- trueFamily relationships
- trueElectronic books
- Middle-aged women -- Fiction
- trueMiddle-aged women
- trueParents with terminal illnesses
- trueSisters
- trueGentle reads
- trueCollege towns
- trueMainstream fiction
- Large type books
- trueOhio
- Domestic fiction
- trueSelf-discovery
- Sisters -- Fiction
- trueScholars
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 'See, we love each other. We just don't happen to like each other very much.' THE WEIRD SISTERS is a trenchantly observant novel about the often warring emotions between sisters. Unlucky in work, love and life, the Andreas sisters return to their childhood home, ostensibly to care for their ailing mother. But each sister has a secret she's unwilling to share -- each has come home to lick her own wounds. The Andreas family is an eccentric one. Books are their passion (a trip to the library usually solved everything), TV is something other families watched. Their father -- a renowned, eccentric professor of Shakespeare who communicates almost exclusively in Shakespearean verse -- named all three girls for great Shakespearean women -- Rose (Rosalind), Bean (Bianca), and Cordy (Cordelia); as a result, the girls find that they have a lot to live up to. With this burden, as well as others they shoulder, the Andreas sisters have a difficult time communicating with both their parents and their lovers, but especially with each other. What can the homebody and shy eldest sister, the fast-living and mysterious middle child, and the bohemian youngest sibling have in common? Why can't Rose leave her hometown for the man she loves? Why has glamorous Bean come home from New York City with her tail between her legs to the small college town she swore she'd leave as soon as she could? And why suddenly has Cordy resurfaced after years of gypsy living? Each sister has found her life nothing like she had thought it would be -- and suddenly faced with their parents' frailty and their own disappointments and setbacks, their usual quick salve of a book suddenly can't solve what ails them. To their surprise, Rose, Bean and Cordy are more similar than they ever imagined. Yet can all three escape their archetypal roots and find happiness in a normal life? As it turns out, the small town of Barnwell and their sisterly bond offer much more than they ever expected
- Summary
- Unwillingly brought together to care for their ailing mother, three sisters who were named after famous Shakespearean characters discover that everything they have been avoiding may prove more worthwhile than expected
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 374842
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1973-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Brown, Eleanor
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Series statement
- Thorndike Press large print basic
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Sisters
- Terminally ill parents
- Middle-aged women
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The weird sisters, Eleanor Brown
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 527 pages
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781594135323
- Isbn Type
- (softcover)
- Lccn
- 2011000827
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)695860354
- 1/531772
- OCoLC
- Label
- The weird sisters, Eleanor Brown
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 527 pages
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781594135323
- Isbn Type
- (softcover)
- Lccn
- 2011000827
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)695860354
- 1/531772
- OCoLC
Subject
- trueCollege towns
- trueDomestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- trueElectronic books
- trueFamily relationships
- trueGentle reads
- Large type books
- trueMainstream fiction
- trueMiddle-aged women
- Middle-aged women -- Fiction
- trueOhio
- trueParents with terminal illnesses
- truePeople with cancer
- trueScholars
- trueSelf-discovery
- trueSisters
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Terminally ill parents -- Fiction
Genre
- trueDomestic fiction
- Electronic books
- Fiction
- trueGentle reads
- Large type books
- trueMainstream fiction
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