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100 1 $aAnderson, Paul$q(W. Paul)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2005000565
245 10 $aHunger's brides :$ba novel of the baroque /$cPaul Anderson.
250 $a1st Carroll & Graf ed.
260 $aNew York :$bCarroll & Graf Publishers,$c2005.
300 $a1358 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 0 $abk. 1. Echo -- bk. 2. Isis -- bk. 3. Sappho -- bk. 4. Phoenix -- bk. 5. Horus -- bk. 6. Phaëthon.
520 $aIn a tale inspired by the life of Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a college professor commits an act of violence against a former lover and examines the contents of a box he has stolen from her, which contains a strange manuscript about Sor Juana.
520 1 $a"Apocalyptic, lyrical, and erotically charged, Hunger's Brides is an epic novel of genius, obsession, and mystery surrounding the Baroque-era Mexican nun, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, who at the time of her death in 1695 was arguably the greatest writer working in any European tongue - though she never lived outside her native Mexico. Born in the shadow of the mountain passes traversed by Cortes and his conquistadors, Juana was a child prodigy whose beauty and wit provoked a sensation at the vice-regal court in Mexico City. At nineteen, though still a royal favorite, she chose to enter a convent. In the twenty years after she left the palace, Juana composed plays, theological arguments, and graceful, often sensuous poetry - insisting upon a life of the mind for women, while jousting with the enforcers of the Inquisition, like a New World Galileo. Then, at forty, Juana made the most astonishing gesture of her dramatic life: she signed a vow of silence in her own blood, five years before succumbing to plague." "While maintaining a portion of his narrative gaze fixed on the Baroque era, it is in the contemporary world that debut novelist Paul Anderson begins his epic work. In the dead of a frigid winter night, a man escapes from an apartment in which a young woman lies mortally wounded. In his hands he's clutching a box he has found on her table addressed to him. He is Donald Gregory, a once-respected college professor and serial adulterer, whose latest affair has left his academic career in ruins. The bleeding woman is Beulah Limosneros, one of his students, and for a brief time his lover. Brilliant, erratic, and driven, she had disappeared into Mexico two years earlier, following her growing obsession with Sor Juana. As a police investigation closes in around Gregory, he pieces together the contents of the box, fearful of incriminating evidence Beulah may have assembled against him. Inside it he finds translated poems of Sor Juana; a travel diary; research notes on the Spanish conquest of the Americas and the Inquisition; journal entries about him; and a strange manuscript, part biography and part fiction, composed largely in Sor Juana's own mesmerizing voice." "In Hunger's Brides, Paul Anderson plumbs a mystery that has intrigued writers as diverse as Robert Graves, Octavio Paz, Diane Ackerman, and Eduardo Galeano: Why did a writer of such gifts silence herself? In his acclaimed debut, Anderson performs a dramatic unfolding of three intimate journeys: a great poet's withdrawal from the world; a man's forced march to self-knowledge; and a woman mystic's pilgrimage into modern Mexico, where the bones of the past continually intrude upon a present built on the ruins of the vanquished."--BOOK JACKET.
600 00 $aJuana Inés de la Cruz,$cSister,$d1651-1695$vFiction.
650 0 $aTeacher-student relationships$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112611
650 4 $aJuana Ines de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695$vFiction.
655 4 $aSuspense fiction.
655 7 $aSuspense fiction.$2gsafd
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1105/2010283907-d.html
852 00 $bbar$hPR9199.4.A53$iH86 2005
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