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2 Formats: Library CD
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2 Formats: Playaway
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ISBN: 9780792791140
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ISBN: 9780792792178
| Runtime: | 11.50 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction/Historical |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
A Slate Magazine Best Book of 2012: Staff Pick
A People Pick of the Week in 2012
A Library Journal Editor’s Pick Best Bet in 2012
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Maryanne O’Hara
invites the reader into the life of a young artist, Desdemona Hart, whose
sacrifice for love spawns a cascade of secrets that threatens not only to undo
her, but also a town, a way of life, and the heritage her beloved father has
left them all. Rich with painterly image and flickering with desire, Cascade explores how passion—for life,
for love, for art—can determine destiny.” —Robin Oliveira, New York Times bestselling author of My Name Is Mary Sutter
“Maryanne O’Hara weaves as intricate, as theatrical, and as tempestuous a plot as deftly as Prospero. Through the eyes of an artist yearning for a larger life-canvas but constrained by a humdrum marriage in a town careening toward destruction, we see the failing of men and women in their tangled relationships, each member of the cast struggling to find a fulfilling life. Save the town! Save the Shakespearean theater! Save our dreams, we cry out with the players.” —Susan Vreeland, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Hyacinth Blue
“Gorgeously written
and involving, Cascade explores the
age-old conflict between a woman’s perceived duty and her deepest desires, but
in O’Hara’s skilled hands the struggle feels fresh and new.” —People
“Cascade unfolds like a Shakespearean tragedy, with an ending you
won’t see coming…Much like a drowned town, the novel becomes something that
you can’t take your eyes from or stop thinking about in wonder.”
—Boston Globe
“O’Hara deftly
combines several different themes into a cohesive novel about love, ambition,
loyalty, and betrayal, with an ironic twist at the end.” —Library Journal
Author
Author Bio: Maryanne O’Hara
Maryanne O’Hara, a graduate of Emerson College’s MFA program, was a longtime associate editor at Ploughshares magazine. Her short stories have been published in Five Points, the North American Review, Crescent Review, and Redbook, as well as the literary anthologies MicroFiction, Brevity & Echo, The Art of Friction, and Flash Fiction: Youth. She lives near Boston with her family.
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | Library CD, Playaway |
| Category: | Fiction/Historical |
| Runtime: | 11.50 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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