Born Again Bodies Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity |
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Author:
| Griffith, R. Marie |
Series title: | California Studies in Food and Culture Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-520-24240-1 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2004 |
Publisher: | University of California Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $34.95 |
Book Description:
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Historian Gillian Adams drops both her academic career in Vancouver and her plans to spend her sabbatical in London with policeman lover Edward in order to return to her childhood home up the Hudson and care for her aging mother whose heart is giving out. Gillian keeps her hand and brain in with a light guest-lecturer load at sleepy rural Stanton, College, a campus chat seems serene but is soon unsettled by the murder of a student on a lonely stretch of road. It's a shocking act...
More DescriptionHistorian Gillian Adams drops both her academic career in Vancouver and her plans to spend her sabbatical in London with policeman lover Edward in order to return to her childhood home up the Hudson and care for her aging mother whose heart is giving out. Gillian keeps her hand and brain in with a light guest-lecturer load at sleepy rural Stanton, College, a campus chat seems serene but is soon unsettled by the murder of a student on a lonely stretch of road. It's a shocking act breaking the rural peace of the area. No less unnerving are the revelations that follow about the girl's double life and its implications for those know to Gillian since childhood. Facing both her past and her future as her mother's life moves towards its close, Gillian copes with the opening--and healing--of old wounds.