A Saint from Texas

A Saint from Texas
Author :
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 310
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781635572568
ISBN-13 : 1635572568
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Saint from Texas by : Edmund White

Download or read book A Saint from Texas written by Edmund White and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Edmund White, a bold and sweeping new novel that traces the extraordinary fates of twin sisters, one destined for Parisian nobility and the other for Catholic sainthood. Yvette and Yvonne Crawford are twin sisters, born on a humble patch of East Texas prairie but bound for far more dramatic and tragic fates. Just as an untold fortune of oil lies beneath their daddy's land, both girls harbor their own secrets and dreams-ones that will carry them far from Texas and from each other. As the decades unfold, Yvonne will ascend the highest ranks of Parisian society as Yvette gives herself to a lifetime of worship and service in the streets of Jericó, Colombia. And yet, even as they remake themselves in their radically different lives, the twins find that the bonds of family and the past are unbreakable. Spanning the 1950s to the recent past, Edmund White's marvelous novel serves up an immensely pleasurable epic of two Texas women as their lives traverse varied worlds: the swaggering opulence of the Dallas nouveau riche, the airless pretension of the Paris gratin, and the strict piety of a Colombian convent. For nearly half a century, Edmund White's work has revitalized American literature, blithely breaking down boundaries of class and sexuality, and A Saint From Texas is one of his most joyous, gorgeously written, and piercing works to date.


A Saint from Texas Related Books

A Saint from Texas
Language: en
Pages: 310
Authors: Edmund White
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-04 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From Edmund White, a bold and sweeping new novel that traces the extraordinary fates of twin sisters, one destined for Parisian nobility and the other for Catho
A Previous Life
Language: en
Pages: 290
Authors: Edmund White
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-01-25 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"Elegant, filthy – and quite possibly the queerest thing you will read all year." -Guardian "Intriguing and inventive." -Electric Literature, "Most Anticipate
Our Paris
Language: en
Pages: 119
Authors: Edmund White
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-02 - Publisher: Knopf

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Edmund White’s charming, funny, telling series of vignettes of the Paris neighborhood where he and his lover, French architect and illustrator Hubert Sorin, l
Folk Like Me
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: K.M. Lucchese
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08 - Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The lives of the saints are either too grisly for little kids or too saccharine for older ones. But this collection appeals to both groups with a combination of
The Married Man
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Edmund White
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-08 - Publisher: Vintage

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In Edmund White's most moving novel yet, an American living in Paris finds his life transformed by an unexpected love affair. Austin Smith is pushing fifty, lov