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008 960313s1996 nyu 000 1 eng
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100 1 $aSharp, Paula.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87891856
245 10 $aCrows over a wheatfield /$cPaula Sharp.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHyperion,$c1996.
263 $a9608
300 $a403 pages ;$c25 cm
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520 $aSpanning a course of thirty years, Crows over a Wheatfield is the story of Melanie Ratleer, a judge who is approaching the summit of her career with an anguished awareness that she has long since abandoned herself to the comforting impersonality of her work. Melanie has come to the law under the massive shadow of her father, a brilliant and notorious litigator as despotic at home as he is in the courtroom.
520 8 $aHis young wife, daughter, and especially his son have suffered under his unpredictable and merciless rages, which culminate in a tragedy that tears the family apart and sends its members away in flight to their own safe havens.
520 8 $aYears afterward Melanie pays a visit to the small Wisconsin town where her stepmother and brother have settled and grown close to a colorfully unorthodox minister and his daughter, the flamboyant and provocative Mildred Steck. The young women quickly become friends, but as the summer passes, Melanie gradually learns that Mildred's family life is beset by its own brutality, which only another tragedy can bring to an end.
520 8 $aAfter a decade in hiding Mildred becomes the focus of national attention when she organizes an underground movement on behalf of women and children fleeing unjust custody rulings and domestic violence. When the movement finally decides to take a public position on a notorious custody case, the drama that ensues forces Melanie to confront a test of her principles, as well as the many long-avoided ghosts of her past.
650 0 $aAbused women$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100492
650 0 $aFamily violence$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103553
655 7 $aDomestic fiction.$2lcgft$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026295
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