Providence by Geoffrey Wolff
Kitty Maule longs to be totally unreasonable, totally unfair, very demanding, and very beautiful. She is instead clever, reticent, self-possessed, and striking. For years. Kitty has been tactfully courting her colleague Maurice Bishop, a detached, elegant English professor. Now, running out of patience, Kitty's amorous pursuit takes her from rancorous academic committee rooms and lecture halls to French cathedrals and Parisian rooming houses, from sittings with her dress-making grandmother to seances with a grandmotherly psychic. Touching, funny, and stylistically breathtaking, Providence is a brightly polished gem of romantic comedy.Geoffrey Wolff is a well-known novelist, essayist, biographer, and critic in contemporary American literature. He is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, where he was the Director of the Graduate Fiction Program from 1995 to 2006. He was educated at Cambridge and Princeton, where he graduated summa cum laude. He formerly worked as a book editor at the Washington Post and Newsweek and served on the faculties of Istanbul University and Princeton University. He is the author of six books, including The Age of Consent (Knopf, 1995), which is set in a small utopian society in upstate New York, and The Last Club (Knopf, 1990), which is about Princeton's covert social networks. Black Sun (Random House, 1976), a literary biography of the short-lived avant-garde poet Harry Crosby; The Art of Burning Bridges: A Life of John O'Hara (Knopf, 2003), a literary biography of the American fiction writer; The Duke of Deception (Random House, 1979), a memoir that was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize; and The Edge of Maine (National Geographic, 2005), a rich portrayal of the
In 1994, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the Prize in Literature, and he has also earned grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He was a Member of the American Academy in Berlin in 2007. He and his family reside in Bath, Maine.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780140100129 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140100121 |
| Title | Providence |
| Author | Geoffrey Wolff |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Group |
| Year published | 1987-03-03 |
| Number of pages | 245 |
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