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"absorbing . . . compelling, and inventive." (Susan Vreeland, author of Girl in Hyacinth Blue ) Tristan Martens, a retired entomologist, is shaken by the discovery of his mother's sewing table in a New York antique shop. He hasn't seen it since he was a boy in Holland, but he vividly... read more
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WHEN I FIRST FOUND my mother's battered little sewing table-or rather, first asked the silver-haired woman who managed the antiques store, or rather that section of the tenth floor with its expensive, museum-quality French provincials, near the back of a building on West Twenty-fifth Street, in a room lit by pools of halogen light, what exactly the homely little table was, and what on earth it was doing there, tucked in among all the grand buffets and elegant secretaires-I was careful to keep my damp hands very still, and to look down puzzled and unrecognizing at it, blinking from under my homburg, to make clear I was stunned only that she would have anything so ordinary, so obviously anachronistic and anonymous and crude and utterly out of keeping with the rest of her very fine and select trade.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Myléne Dressler (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Bluehen Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 0399148051
Page Count: 208
Publisher: Bluehen Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 0399148051
Page Count: 208
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