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A complete list of books by portland, maine based author kate christensen, including how to cook a moose, blue plate special, the astral, trouble, the great man, the epicure s lament, jeremy thrane, and in the drink. With this installment, we offer excerpts from the epicures lament by kate christensen. I require a sense of mystery, discovery, and surprise. How to cook a moose by kate christensen overdrive rakuten. Kate christensen author kate christensen is also the author of the novels in the drink and jeremy thrane. Hugo writes volumes, filling three notebooks in the telling of his story and starting a fourth. As his obituary notes, oscar is survived by his wife, abigail, their son, ethan, and his sister, the wellknown abstract painter maxine feldman. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read in the drink. Afflicted with a rare disease that will be fatal unless he quits smoking, hugo retreats to his once aristocratic familys dilapidated mansion, determined to smoke himself to death without. Kate christensen is the author of six prior novels, most recently the astral, and the memoir blue plate special. As the 2016 presidential election unfolded, kate christensen shuttled between the old new hampshire farmhouse where her husband was born and the couples home in portland, maine. This acclaimed book by kate christensen is available at in several formats for your ereader.
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The following is an excerpt from the epicures lament by kate christensen, forthcoming from vintage books in february 2004. Kate christensen born august 22, 1962 is an american novelist. The great man national bestseller and winner of the penfaulkner award for fiction oscar feldman, the renowned figurative painter, has passed away. A book was often propped against my whiskey bottle, but most nights i didnt read, i concentrated on tasting the food id made. Jeremy thrane is a thirtyfiveyearold writer in love with a married man. For ten years, hugo whittier, upperclass scion, former gigol. Her previous novels are in the drink 1999, jeremy thrane 2001, and the epicures lament. I understand monks and hermits, anyone who takes a vow of silence or lives in a. Hugo whittierfailed poet and former kept manis a wily misanthrope with a taste for whiskey, women, and his. It more than fulfills the bright promise of her lavishly praised previous two novels, and gives us an antihero for our timehard to like, impossible to resist. Kate christensen is the author, most recently, of blue plate special. Not only will he not go out of his way for anyone else, he cant even be bothered to save his own life.
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