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Providence

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Providence
Providence

Elegant romantic comedy with sharp, wistful intelligence

If you like love stories that feel emotionally precise rather than flashy, this will likely charm you. Kitty is such a wonderfully controlled yet quietly yearning heroine, and her pursuit of Maurice gives the book its dry wit and ache at the same time. It has that rare Brookner quality where every social detail feels polished, funny, and a little heartbreaking.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9780679738145
Related Collections: Romance, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Literature, Classics, French Literature, Chick Lit, Humor

Description

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.
 

Elegant romantic comedy with sharp, wistful intelligence

If you like love stories that feel emotionally precise rather than flashy, this will likely charm you. Kitty is such a wonderfully controlled yet quietly yearning heroine, and her pursuit of Maurice gives the book its dry wit and ache at the same time. It has that rare Brookner quality where every social detail feels polished, funny, and a little heartbreaking.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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