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The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf
Contributor(s): Davis, Kathryn (Author)

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ISBN: 1644450291     ISBN-13: 9781644450291
Publisher: Graywolf Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2021
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2019949916
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" L (1.14 lbs) 416 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region - Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation - New York
 
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Publisher Description:

Back in print, an astonishing novel of art, obsession, and the secrets kept by two very different women

In Kathryn Davis's second novel, Frances Thorn, waitress and single parent of twins, finds herself transformed by the dazzling magnetism of Helle Ten Brix, an elderly Danish composer of operas. At the heart of what binds them is "The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf," the Hans Christian Andersen tale of a prideful girl who, in order to spare her new shoes, uses a loaf of bread, intended as a gift for her parents, as a stepping-stone, and ends up sinking to the bottom of a bog. Helle's final opera, based on this tale and unfinished at the time of her death, is willed to Frances--a life-changing legacy that compels Frances to unravel the mysteries of Helle's story and, in so doing, to enter the endlessly revolving, intricate world of her operas.

The ravishing beauty and matchless wit that have characterized Davis's work from the beginning are here on full display. The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf is a novel as thrilling in its virtuosity as it is moving in its homage to the power of art, a power that changes lives forever.


Contributor Bio(s): Davis, Kathryn: - Kathryn Davis is the author of six novels. She has received the Kafka Prize, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Lannan Foundation Literary Award. She teaches at Washington University, and lives in Vermont and St. Louis, Missouri.
 
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