An edition of Disappearing Ingenue (2002)

Disappearing ingenue

the misadventures of Eleanor Stoddard

1st ed.

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An edition of Disappearing Ingenue (2002)

Disappearing ingenue

the misadventures of Eleanor Stoddard

1st ed.

"Eleanor Stoddard tries to lead an exemplary life - to pursue the high road, to better herself and the world - but somehow things keep going awry. In "Port de Bras," even as Eleanor spends her summer reading about the Holocaust, her good intentions are disrupted by the discovery that her first best friend is a compulsive liar who has cried wolf too many times. "Salve Regina" wryly captures another ill-fated step on Eleanor's journey toward goodness.

When, much to her mother's dismay, she dreams of becoming a nun and dutifully says her rosary in the bathroom at her first cotillion, Eleanor finds that she still can't save a friend from the consequences of her first seduction. Her marriage brings no relief from the twists of fate - and her quirky attempts to deal with them. In "The Case of the Disappearing Ingenue," Eleanor turns to Nancy Drew for help when she suspects that her husband may be cheating on her. In the Pushcart Prize-winning "Funktionslust," the final story in this collection, Eleanor finally gets her childhood wish... but not exactly in the way she imagined.

Traveling through Central America with a rescued laboratory gorilla, "Like a rogue saint, Eleanor Stoddard was sighted here and there, most often by the innocent."--BOOK JACKET.

Publish Date
Publisher
Doubleday
Language
English
Pages
239

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Cover of: Disappearing Ingenue
Disappearing Ingenue
June 10, 2003, Anchor
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Disappearing ingenue: the misadventures of Eleanor Stoddard
2002, Doubleday
in English - 1st ed.

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Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3566.R578 D57 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
239 p. ;
Number of pages
239

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3954053M
Internet Archive
disappearinginge00prit
ISBN 10
0385503032
LCCN
2001052737
OCLC/WorldCat
48383445
Library Thing
227058
Goodreads
774519

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