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001 3106383
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008 010405s2001 nyu 000 1 eng
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050 00 $aPS3551.L215$bI3 2001
082 00 $a813/.54$221
100 1 $aAlameddine, Rabih.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98001455
245 10 $aI, the divine :$ba novel in first chapters /$cRabih Alameddine.
260 $aNew York :$bNorton,$c2001.
263 $a0110
300 $a308 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"Named by her grandfather after the "divine" Sarah Bernhardt, red-haired Sarah Nour El-Din is feisty, rebellious, individualistic - a person determined to make of her life a work of art. In I, the Divine, she tries to tell her story, sometimes casting it as a memoir, sometimes a novel, full of sly humor and dark realism, always beguilingly incomplete.".
520 8 $a"What emerges from these exquisite "first chapters" is extraordinary - a woman and a life as real as any we have known in literature. Raised in a hybrid family shaped by divorce and remarriage, and by Beirut in wartime, Sarah finds a fragile peace in self-imposed exile in the United States.
520 8 $aHer vibrant spirit has survived violence, her mother's suicide, her sister's madness, and the impossibility of escaping her family (including her frighteningly entrepreneurial stepmother, who has hired members of Hezbollah to sabotage her competitors). Her extraordinary dignity is supported by a best friend, a grown-up son, sensual pleasures (occasional sex, frequent bubble baths, the company of cats), and her determination to tell her own story."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aLebanese Americans$vFiction.
650 0 $aWomen artists$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113347
655 7 $aPsychological fiction.$2lcgft$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026492
852 00 $bglx$hPS3551.L215$iI3 2001