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050 00 $aPS3552.E5397$bS25 2000
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100 1 $aBenedict, Helen.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84073442
245 14 $aThe sailor's wife :$ba novel /$cHelen Benedict.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aCambridge, MA :$bZoland Books,$c2000.
263 $a0010
300 $a294 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"Joyce Perlman is aimless and drifting after high school in a Miami suburb. By chance one night she meets a Greek merchant marine named Nikos, and for the first time realizes she "doesn't want to be a virgin anymore." Against her parents' wishes, they marry, and he takes her back to his home on a remote Greek island. There he leaves her, rarely returning, for over two years.
520 8 $aJoyce finds herself living the merciless life of a Greek peasant woman, at the command of people steeped in religion, misogyny, superstition, and their experience of war.".
520 8 $a"Yet, she loves it. For the first time in her life, she feels she has a purpose. Then she meets Alex, a young Englishman with family on the island, and is forced to come to grips with everything she's turned her back on: modernity, education, freedom, and passion. The Sailor's Wife is an examination fo the nature of freedom, and the struggle to balance duty and love."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAmericans$zGreece$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009114857
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650 0 $aMarried women$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107257
651 0 $aGreece$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115274
655 7 $aDomestic fiction.$2lcgft$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026295
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