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Frances and Bernard

"A novel of stunning subtlety, grace, and depth ... compos(ed in) dueling letters of breathtaking wit, seduction, and heartbreak."---- A letter can spark a friendship. A friendship can change your life. In the summer of 1957, Frances and Bernard meet at an artists' colony. She finds him faintly ridiculous, but talented. He sees her as aloof, but intriguing. Afterward, he writes her a letter. Soon they are immersed in the kind of fast, deep friendship that can take over--and change the course of--our lives. From points afar, they find their way to New York and, for a few whirling years, each other. The city is a wonderland for young people with dreams: cramped West Village kitchens, rowdy cocktail parties stocked with the sharp-witted and glamorous, taxis that can take you anywhere at all, long talks along the Hudson River as the lights of the Empire State Building blink on above. Inspired by the lives of Flannery O'Connor and Robert Lowell, Frances and Bernard imagines, through new characters with charms entirely their own, what else might have happened. It explores the limits of faith, passion, sanity, what it means to be a true friend, and the nature of acceptable sacrifice. In the grandness of the fall, can we love another person so completely that we lose ourselves? How much should we give up for those we love? How do we honor the gifts our loved ones bring and still keep true to our dreams? In witness to all the wonder of kindred spirits and bittersweet romance, Frances and Bernard.

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  • ""A novel of stunning subtlety, grace, and depth ... compos(ed in) dueling letters of breathtaking wit, seduction, and heartbreak."---- A letter can spark a friendship. A friendship can change your life. In the summer of 1957, Frances and Bernard meet at an artists' colony. She finds him faintly ridiculous, but talented. He sees her as aloof, but intriguing. Afterward, he writes her a letter. Soon they are immersed in the kind of fast, deep friendship that can take over--and change the course of--our lives. From points afar, they find their way to New York and, for a few whirling years, each other. The city is a wonderland for young people with dreams: cramped West Village kitchens, rowdy cocktail parties stocked with the sharp-witted and glamorous, taxis that can take you anywhere at all, long talks along the Hudson River as the lights of the Empire State Building blink on above. Inspired by the lives of Flannery O'Connor and Robert Lowell, Frances and Bernard imagines, through new characters with charms entirely their own, what else might have happened. It explores the limits of faith, passion, sanity, what it means to be a true friend, and the nature of acceptable sacrifice. In the grandness of the fall, can we love another person so completely that we lose ourselves? How much should we give up for those we love? How do we honor the gifts our loved ones bring and still keep true to our dreams? In witness to all the wonder of kindred spirits and bittersweet romance, Frances and Bernard."@en
  • "He is Bernard Eliot, a poet: passionate, gregarious, a force of nature. She is Frances Reardon, a novelist: wry, uncompromising and quick to skewer. In the summer of 1957, Frances and Bernard meet at a writers' colony. Afterwards, he sends her a letter, and with it begins an almost holy friendship. From their first, witty missives to dispatches from the long, dark night of the soul, Frances and Bernard tussle over faith and family, literature and creativity, madness and devotion - and before long, they are writing the account of their very own love story."
  • ""Inspired by the lives of Flannery O'Connor and Robert Lowell, Frances and Bernard imagines, through new characters with charms entirely their own, what else might have happened."--"@en
  • "Een beginnende romanschrijfster van eenvoudige komaf begint een relatie met een iets oudere gevestigde dichter uit een rijke familie met als gemeenschappelijke factor hun katholieke geloof. Roman in briefvorm."
  • "In the summer of 1957, Frances and Bernard meet at an artists' colony. She finds him faintly ridiculous, but talented. He sees her as aloof, but intriguing. Afterward, he writes her a letter. Soon they are immersed in the kind of fast, deep friendship that can take over-- and change the course of-- lives. They find their way to New York and, for a few whirling years, each other. Can we love another person so completely that we lose ourselves?"@en
  • "In the summer of 1957, Frances and Bernard meet at an artists' colony. She finds him faintly ridiculous, but talented. He sees her as aloof, but intriguing. Afterward, he writes her a letter. Soon they are immersed in the kind of fast, deep friendship that can take over-- and change the course of-- lives. They find their way to New York and, for a few whirling years, each other. Can we love another person so completely that we lose ourselves?"
  • "In the summer of 1957, Frances and Bernard meet at a writers' colony. She finds him faintly ridiculous, but talented. He sees her as aloof, but intriguing. Afterwards, he sends her a letter. Soon they are engaged in the kind of fast, deep connection that can take over -- and change the course of -- our lives. Their absorbing correspondence explores faith, creativity, depression, passion, what it means to be a true friend, and the nature of acceptable sacrifice. How much should we give up for those we love? Inspired by the lives of Flannery O'Connor and Robert Lowell."

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  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Romance fiction"
  • "Fiction"
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  • "Roman américain"
  • "Epistolary fiction"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Text"
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  • "Electronic books"
  • "Love stories"

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  • "Frances & Bernard : roman"
  • "Frances and Bernard"
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