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008			240910s1995 nyu 000 1 eng d
020			_a0060171510
040			_cQCPL _erda
082			_a813
100	1		_aNunez, Sigrid _eauthor
245	1	2	_aA feather on the breath of God _b: a novel _c/ by Sigrid Nunez
250			_aFirst edition
264		1	_aNew York : _bHarperCollins Publishers, _c[1995]
300			_a181 pages
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
500			_a"Uncorrected proof."--Cover.
520			_aIn this profoundly moving novel, a young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother who meet in post-war Germany and settle in New York. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, the narrator escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents' stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworldly life of ballet. A yearning, homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet - these are the elements that shape the young woman's imaginations and sexuality. Years later, while working as an English instructor, she begins an affair with a Russian immigrant. As his English improves, he binds her to him by becoming more and more articulate in expressing his feelings for her, but at the same time frightens her with every new revelation about his own troubled past.
650			_aYoung women _zNew York (State) _zNew York _vFiction
650			_aChinese Americans _zNew York (State) _zNew York _vFiction
655		0	_aDomestic fiction _2lcgft _910554
942			_2ddc _cBOOK
999			_c24054 _d24053