- In Hovering Flight a Novel
- Author: Joyce Hinnefeld
- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Unbridled Books; First edition (September 16, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1932961585
- ISBN-13: 9781932961584
Product Description
At 34 years of age, Scarlet has come home for the passing of her famous mother, the bird artist Addie Kavanaugh. The year is 2002. Though Addie and her husband, the world-renowned ornithologist Tom Kavanaugh, have made their life in southeastern Pennsylvania, Addie has chosen to die at the home of her dearest friend, Cora. This is because their ramshackle cottage in Burnham, Pennsylvania, is filled with so much history and because, in the last ten years or so, even birdsong has seemed to make Addie angry, or sad, or both. These are the things that Scarlet needs to understand. Cora and Lou (the third woman in Addie's circle) will help Scarlet to see her mother in full. In addition, Scarlet carries her own secret into these foggy days-a secret for Addie, one that involves Cora, too. Joyce Hinnefeld's debut novel is rich in so many ways beyond the taut mother-daughter dynamic and the competition among even the closest of women. The natural world, an artist's vision, the intensity of long-lasting love, the flight of a bird's song and the sighting of an extinct-or perhaps illusory-samll creature all work to shape the plot of the novel. Even the prose seems filled with birdsong-at once raucous and transporting. In its structure and style, In Hovering Flight follows in the tradition of writers like Virginia Woolf, Harriet Doerr and Carol Shields: musical and dramatic, with myriad stories and voices. But the evocative language of this soaring novel is Hinnefeld's own.
About the Author
Joyce Hinnefeld is an associate professor of writing at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She is the author of a short story collection, TELL ME EVERYTHING AND OTHER STORIES, which was awarded the 1997 Breadloaf Writers" Conference Bakeless Prize in fiction in 1997. IN HOVERING FLIGHT is her first novel.
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