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Flora a novel

Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of World War II. Their relationship and its fallout, played against a backdrop of a lost America will haunt He...

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Main Author: Godwin, Gail.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury, c2013.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Subjects:
Girls > Fiction.
Guardian and ward > Fiction.
Bildungsromans > United States.
Summary: Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of World War II. Their relationship and its fallout, played against a backdrop of a lost America will haunt Helen for the rest of her life.
Physical Description: 278 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9781620401200 (hbk.)
1620401207 (hbk.)
Author Notes: Gail Godwin is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the bestselling author of twelve critically acclaimed novels, including A Mother and Two Daughters , The Good Husband , Father Melancholy's Daughter , and Evensong . She is also the author of The Making of a Writer: Journals, 1961--1963 , the first of two volumes, edited by Rob Neufeld. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts grants for both fiction and libretto writing, and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Woodstock, New York. Visit her website at www.gailgodwin.com.

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