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Glassworks
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN13:
9781635578775
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A gorgeously written and irresistibly intimate queer novel that follows one family across four generations to explore legacy and identity in all its forms. A Goodreads Buzziest Debut Novel of 2023 In 1910, Agnes Carter makes the wrong choice in marriage. After years as an independent woman of fortune, influential with the board of a prominent university because of her financial donations, she is now subject to the whims of an abusive, spendthrift husband. But when Bohemian naturalist and glassblower Ignace Novak reignites Agness passion for science, Agnes begins to imagine a different life, and she sets her mind to getting it. Agness desperate actions breed secrecy, and the resulting silence echoes into the future. Her son, Edward, wants to be a man of faith but struggles with the complexities of the mortal world while apprenticing at a stained-glass studio. In 1986, Edwards child, Novakjust Novakis an acrobatic window washer cleaning Manhattan high-rises, who gets caught up in the plight of Cecily, a small town girl remade as a gender-bending Broadway ingénue. And in 2015, Cecilys daughter Flipa burned-out stoner trapped in a bureaucratic job firing cremains into keepsake glass ornamentsresolves to break the cycle of inherited secrets, reaching back through the generations in search of a family legacy that feels true. For readers of Mary Beth Keane, Min Jin Lee, and Rebecca Makkai, Glassworks is "an era-spanning, family and chosen-family following, marvel of a debut." (CJ Hauser, author of FAMILY OF ORIGIN)
- | Author: Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
- | Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
- | Publication Date: May 16, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 368 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1635578779
- | ISBN-13: 9781635578775
- Author:
- Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publication Date:
- May 16, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 368 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 1635578779
- ISBN-13:
- 9781635578775