Divining Women (Gibbons, Kaye (Spoken Word))

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In the same vein as Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall or Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Divining Women is the story of a woman's victory over her emotionally sadistic husband. Maureen, an expectant mother, is all but a reclusive and seeming hysteric after years of emotional battery and isolation, but awareness of her options enters when her young niece /5.

“DIVINING WOMEN is a compelling tale of female friendship and the confines of social expectation.” (Denver Rocky Mountain News) “Gibbons’ sentences are wonderfully lucid and lyrical at once.” (Chicago Tribune)/5(28). Divining Women does not disappoint. The story: Mary is a young woman who grew up around wealthy, free-thinking relatives during the first part of the 20th century.

One grandfather is a nudist, another plays host to the spirits who come through their house on the way to somewhere else in their afterlives/5(28).

DIVINING WOMEN is a compelling tale of female friendship and the confines of social expectation. Denver Rocky Mountain News. Gibbons has once again given stimulating voice to women. Miami Herald.

It is vinatage Gibbons gorgeously written, filled with insights about women and memorable characters. Newhouse News Service/5(6). Kaye Gibbon's newest book "Divining Women" does not disappoint.

It's the story of a particularly disfunctional marriage durring WWI and the flu epidemic.5/5(5). About Divining Women. In her darkest yet most redeeming novel, Gibbons scorches us with a Þrestorm of despair-and then resurrects love and hope from its very ashes.

Autumn Rumors of peace are spreading across America, but spreading even faster are the first cases of Spanish influenza, whispering of the epidemic to come.

Divining Women by Kaye Gibbons - A powerful new novel from the bestselling author of Ellen Foster Autumn, Rumors of peace are spreading across America, Book Edition: Unabridged.

Women rescue a crushed young wife from a domestic tyrant, in Gibbons’s seventh novel (after On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon, ). It’s Septemberand year-old Mary Oliver is leaving home (Washington, DC) to spend time with her.

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Best New Ebook Premium. "A Marian Wood book." InMaureen Ross struggles to deal with a difficult pregnancy and her emotionally abusive husband Troop, until the arrival of Troop's niece, Mary Oliver, the child of a wealthy, freethinking family who sets out to protect her auntPages: Kaye Gibbons, whose debut, Ellen Foster, was chosen for Oprah's Book Club, Divining Women is her first novel since Darker than Gibbons' previous novels, Divining Women evolves into an almost gothic tale as the somewhat na•ve and unsuspecting young Mary Oliver heads south from Washington, D.C., to Elm City, North Carolina, in the autumn of to be a companion.

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The Boston Globe hailed On the Occasion of My Last Afternoonas "another gift from Kaye Gibbons to the literature celebrating strong women of every age and era." Much the same can be said of Divining Women.

In the same vein as Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall or Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Divining Women is the story of a woman's victory over her emotionally sadistic husband/5(6).

Divining Women. Written by Kaye Gibbons Review by L.K. Mason. Divining Women takes place inas the First World War comes to a close and the Spanish influenza epidemic begins. Mary Oliver, a young woman of privileged background and of liberal upbringing, arrives in Elm City, North Carolina, to tend to her aunt Maureen, who is in the final stages of a difficult.

Divining Women - Divining Women audiobook, by Kaye Gibbons A powerful new novel from the bestselling author of Ellen Foster Autumn, Rumors of peace are spreading across America, but spreading even faster are the first cases of Spanish influenza, whispering of the epidemic to come.

Virtuous Woman; On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon; Charms for Easy Life; Ellen Foster-V; A Cure for Dreams; Sights Unseen; A Virtuous Woman; The Life All Around Me by Ellen Foster; Charms. A powerful new novel from the bestselling author of Ellen FosterAutumn, Rumors of peace are spreading across America, but spreading even faster are the first cases of Spanish influenza, whispering of the epidemic to come.

Maureen Ross, well.Talk about incohesive & improbable. In the same vein as Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall or Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Divining Women is the story of a woman's victory over her emotionally sadistic husband.

Maureen, an expectant mother, is all but a reclusive and seeming hysteric after years of emotional battery and isolation, but awareness of her options /5(10).Divining women. [Kaye Gibbons] -- InMaureen Ross struggles to deal with a difficult pregnancy and her emotionally abusive husband Troop, until the arrival of Troop's niece, Mary Oliver, the child of a wealthy, freethinking.