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The seduction of water

Iris Greenfeder feels a major part of her life is unfinished, so she writes a fairy tale about her mother, and in the process discovers a non-threatening way to deal with her mother's death years earlier.

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  • "Iris Greenfeder feels a major part of her life is unfinished, so she writes a fairy tale about her mother, and in the process discovers a non-threatening way to deal with her mother's death years earlier."@en
  • "Iris Greenfeder is a 36-year-old barely published New York writer and teacher whose long-term boyfriend, an artist, sees her schedule as strict and therefore will not spend the night, because he likes to get up and paint first thing every morning. When one of Iris's stories about her mother is picked up by a small literary journal with a well-connected editor, things start to happen for her. She becomes convinced that a summer out of the city, working as manager of the old hotel where she grew up, will give her the perfect setting in which to pen a memoir of her writer mother, as well as an opportunity to look for the rumored manuscript of her mother's final book. But there are those who are just as determined to keep the dead woman's secrets in the grave."
  • "Iris Greenfeder is a 36-year-old barely published New York writer and teacher whose long-term boyfriend, an artist, sees her schedule as strict and therefore will not spend the night, because he likes to get up and paint first thing every morning. When one of Iris's stories about her mother is picked up by a small literary journal with a well-connected editor, things start to happen for her. She becomes convinced that a summer out of the city, working as manager of the old hotel where she grew up, will give her the perfect setting in which to pen a memoir of her writer mother, as well as an opportunity to look for the rumored manuscript of her mother's final book. But there are those who are just as determined to keep the dead woman's secrets in the grave."@en
  • "Iris Greenfeder, ABD (All But Dissertation), feels the "buts" are taking over her life: all but published, all but a professor, all but married. Yet the sudden impulse to write a story about her mother, Katherine Morrissey, leads to a shot at literary success. The piece recounts an eerie Irish fairy tale her mother used to tell her at bedtime'and nestled inside it is the sad story of her death. It captures the attention of her mother's former literary agent, who is convinced that Katherine wrote one final manuscript before her strange, untimely end in a fire thirty years ago. So Iris goes back to the remote Hotel Equinox in the Catskills, the place where she grew up, to write her mother's biography and search for the missing manuscript'and there she unravels a haunting mystery, one that holds more secrets than she ever expected. . . . From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
  • "After writing a story about her late mother, Iris Greenfeder returns to her childhood home at the remote Hotel Equinox in the Catskills, intending to write her mother's biography, only to stumble into the middle of a haunting mystery."
  • "Een docente literatuurgeschiedenis speurt naar het verleden van haar moeder, een schrijfster van sprookjes, die dertig jaar geleden bij een brand om het leven kwam."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Livres électroniques"
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Large type books"

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  • "ha-Pitui shel ha-mayim"
  • "De schaduw van mijn moeder"
  • "The seduction of water"
  • "The seduction of water"@en
  • "The Seduction of Water"@en
  • "La seduzione dell'acqua"@it
  • "La seduzione dell'acqua"

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