The Resource A wild winter swan : a novel, Gregory Maguire
A wild winter swan : a novel, Gregory Maguire
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The item A wild winter swan : a novel, Gregory Maguire represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- Following her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet, awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a popular girl who bullied her. When Christmas is over and the new year begins, Laura may find herself at boarding school in Montreal. Nearly unmoored from reality through her panic and submerged grief, Laura is startled when a handsome swan boy with only one wing lands on her roof. Hiding him from her ever-bickering grandparents, Laura tries to build the swan boy a wing so he can fly home. But the task is too difficult to accomplish herself. Little does Laura know that her struggle to find help for her new friend parallels that of her grandparents, who are desperate for a distant relative's financial aid to save the family store. As he explores themes of class, isolation, family, and the dangerous yearning to be saved by a power greater than ourselves, Gregory Maguire conjures a haunting, beautiful tale of magical realism that illuminates one young woman's heartbreak and hope as she begins the inevitable journey to adulthood
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Harper Large Print edition.
- Extent
- 290 pages (large print)
- Isbn
- 9780063028890
- Label
- A wild winter swan : a novel
- Title
- A wild winter swan
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Gregory Maguire
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Following her brother's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, Laura now lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a lonely townhouse she shares with her old-world, strict, often querulous grandparents. But the arrangement may be temporary. The quiet, awkward teenager has been getting into trouble at home and has been expelled from her high school for throwing a record album at a popular girl who bullied her. When Christmas is over and the new year begins, Laura may find herself at boarding school in Montreal. Nearly unmoored from reality through her panic and submerged grief, Laura is startled when a handsome swan boy with only one wing lands on her roof. Hiding him from her ever-bickering grandparents, Laura tries to build the swan boy a wing so he can fly home. But the task is too difficult to accomplish herself. Little does Laura know that her struggle to find help for her new friend parallels that of her grandparents, who are desperate for a distant relative's financial aid to save the family store. As he explores themes of class, isolation, family, and the dangerous yearning to be saved by a power greater than ourselves, Gregory Maguire conjures a haunting, beautiful tale of magical realism that illuminates one young woman's heartbreak and hope as she begins the inevitable journey to adulthood
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Maguire, Gregory
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- Italian American families
- Swans
- Teenage girls
- Grandparent and child
- Life change events
- Nineteen sixties
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- A wild winter swan : a novel, Gregory Maguire
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- p2251575070
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- First Harper Large Print edition.
- Extent
- 290 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9780063028890
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Specific material designation
- large print
- Label
- A wild winter swan : a novel, Gregory Maguire
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- p2251575070
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Edition
- First Harper Large Print edition.
- Extent
- 290 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9780063028890
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Specific material designation
- large print
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