The Mermaid Chair

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Kidd, Sue Monk 저자(글)

Penguin Publishing Group · 2006년 03월 07일

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Sue Monk Kidd? debut novel, The Secret Life of Bees, has sold more than 3,500,000 copies. She is also the author of several acclaimed memoirs and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Poets & Writers award.
SUE MONK KIDD is the author of the novels, The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair, and the memoirs, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, When the Heart Waits, and Firstlight, a collection of early writings. The Secret Life of Bees has spent more than 125 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was adapted into an award-winning movie. The Mermaid Chair, a #1 New York Times bestseller, was adapted into a television movie. Each of her novels has been translated into more than 24 languages. The recipient of numerous literary awards, Sue lives in South Carolina with her husband.
A dazzling novel of passion and spiritualitythe instant blockbuster bestseller from the author of "The Secret Life of Bees" Sue Monk Kidds phenomenal debut, "The Secret Life of Bees," became a runaway bestseller that is still on the "New York Times" bestseller list more than two years after its paperback publication. Now, in her luminous new novel, Kidd has woven a transcendent tale that will thrill her legion of fans. Telling the story of Jessie Sullivana love story between a woman and a monk, a woman and her husband, and ultimately a woman and her own soulKidd charts a journey of awakening and self-discovery illuminated with a brilliance that only a writer of her ability could conjure. Book clubs, start your engines. . . . ["The Mermaid Chair"] is a tapestry strengthened by bonds between women that bridge pain and loss. "USA Today" The pages all but turn themselves. "Parade" Soulful in its probing of the human heart. "San Francisco Chronicle" Kidd draws connections from the feminine to the divine to the erotic that a lesser writer wouldnt see, and might not have the guts to follow. "Time" Its hard to put this book down for things like eating and sleeping. "Elle"
A dazzling novel of passion and spirituality?he instant blockbuster bestseller from the author of The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd? phenomenal debut, The Secret Life of Bees, became a runaway bestseller that is still on the New York Timesbestseller list more than two years after its paperback publication. Now, in her luminous new novel, Kidd has woven a transcendent tale that will thrill her legion of fans. Telling the story of Jessie Sullivan? love story between a woman and a monk, a woman and her husband, and ultimately a woman and her own soul?idd charts a journey of awakening and self-discovery illuminated with a brilliance that only a writer of her ability could conjure. Book clubs, start your engines. . . . [The Mermaid Chair] is a tapestry strengthened by bonds between women that bridge pain and loss.??SA Today The pages all but turn themselves.??arade Soulful in its probing of the human heart.??an Francisco Chronicle Kidd draws connections from the feminine to the divine to the erotic that a lesser writer wouldn? see, and might not have the guts to follow.??ime It? hard to put this book down for things like eating and sleeping.??lle
A dazzling novel of passion and spirituality?he instant blockbuster bestseller from the author of The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd? phenomenal debut, The Secret Life of Bees, became a runaway bestseller that is still on the New York Timesbestseller list more than two years after its paperback publication. Now, in her luminous new novel, Kidd has woven a transcendent tale that will thrill her legion of fans. Telling the story of Jessie Sullivan? love story between a woman and a monk, a woman and her husband, and ultimately a woman and her own soul?idd charts a journey of awakening and self-discovery illuminated with a brilliance that only a writer of her ability could conjure. Book clubs, start your engines. . . . [The Mermaid Chair] is a tapestry strengthened by bonds between women that bridge pain and loss.??SA Today The pages all but turn themselves.??arade Soulful in its probing of the human heart.??an Francisco Chronicle Kidd draws connections from the feminine to the divine to the erotic that a lesser writer wouldn? see, and might not have the guts to follow.??ime It? hard to put this book down for things like eating and sleeping.??lle
A dazzling novel of passion and spirituality??he instant blockbuster bestseller from the author of The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd?? phenomenal debut, The Secret Life of Bees, became a runaway bestseller that is still on the New York Timesbestseller list more than two years after its paperback publication. Now, in her luminous new novel, Kidd has woven a transcendent tale that will thrill her legion of fans. Telling the story of Jessie Sullivan?? love story between a woman and a monk, a woman and her husband, and ultimately a woman and her own soul??idd charts a journey of awakening and self-discovery illuminated with a brilliance that only a writer of her ability could conjure. ??ook clubs, start your engines. . . . [ The Mermaid Chair] is a tapestry strengthened by bonds between women that bridge pain and loss.????SA Today ??he pages all but turn themselves.????arade ??oulful in its probing of the human heart.????an Francisco Chronicle ??idd draws connections from the feminine to the divine to the erotic that a lesser writer wouldn?? see, and might not have the guts to follow.????ime ??t?? hard to put this book down for things like eating and sleeping.????lle
Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. Jessie Sullivan's conventional life has been "molded to the smallest space possible." So when she is called home to cope with her mother's startling and enigmatic act of violence, Jessie finds herself relieved to be apart from her husband, Hugh. Jessie loves Hugh, but on Egret Island-amid the gorgeous marshlands and tidal creeks-she becomes drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk who is mere months from taking his final vows. What transpires will unlock the roots of her mother's tormented past, but most of all, as Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it, she will find a freedom that feels overwhelmingly right. What inspires the yearning for a soul mate? Few writers have explored, as Kidd does, the lush, unknown region of the feminine soul where the thin line between the spiritual and the erotic exists. The Mermaid Chair is a vividly imagined novel about the passions of the spirit and the ecstasies of the body; one that illuminates a woman's self-awakening with the brilliance and power that only a writer of Kidd's ability could conjure.
A #1 "New York Times" bestseller, this dazzling novel of passion and spirituality is penned by the author of "The Secret Life of Bees." "Soulful in its probing of the human heart."--"San Francisco Chronicle."
From the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Secret Life of Bees. Winner of the 2005 Quill Award for Fiction!Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. Jessie Sullivan's conventional life has been ?molded to the smallest space possible.' So when she is called home to cope with her mother's startling and enigmatic act of violence, Jessie finds herself relieved to be apart from her husband, Hugh. Jessie loves Hugh, but on Egret Island'amid the gorgeous marshlands and tidal creeks'she becomes drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk who is mere months from taking his final vows. What transpires will unlock the roots of her mother's tormented past, but most of all, as Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it, she will find a freedom that feels overwhelmingly right.What inspires the yearning for a soul mate? Few writers have explored, as Kidd does, the lush, unknown region of the feminine soul where the thin line between the spiritual and the erotic exists. The Mermaid Chair is a vividly imagined novel about the passions of the spirit and the ecstasies of the body; one that illuminates a woman's self-awakening with the brilliance and power that only a writer of Kidd's ability could conjure.

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저자(글) Kidd, Sue Monk

SUE MONK KIDD is the author of the novels, The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair, and the memoirs, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, When the Heart Waits, and Firstlight, a collection of early writings. The Secret Life of Bees has spent more than 125 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was adapted into an award-winning movie. The Mermaid Chair, a #1 New York Times bestseller, was adapted into a television movie. Each of her novels has been translated into more than 24 languages. The recipient of numerous literary awards, Sue lives in South Carolina with her husband.

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ISBN	9780143036692 ( 0143036696 )
발행(출시)일자	2006년 03월 07일
쪽수	368쪽
크기	132 * 196 * 17 mm / 236 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어