Speaking in Tongues - Hardcover

Ashour, Linda Phillips

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671640909 ISBN 13: 9780671640903

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1988

Synopsis

A novel of divided loyalties follows Lucy Lerner, an expatriate American living in France with her husband, as she travels back to her Oklahoma home and her comically bizarre family

About this title

From the Back Cover:

In her debut novel, which The New York Times called "rich and promising," Linda Phillips Ashour tells the story of Lucy Lerner, an Oklahoma expatriate who flees her Bible Belt background, marries a French photographer, and settles down with him in a rambling old country house in Provence. Now Lucy has two worlds, both populated by colorful characters, such as the poet publicly arrested for posting an ode to body hair; a young Frenchwoman with a dangerous appetite for American jeans; Arthur Glad, "a slimeball with terrific ideas;" her cousin, who sends her letters from the state mental hospital doused in vanilla extract; her brother, who marries and then deserts Tulsa's former Tractor Queen; and Catch Eckle, "the undisputed miniature golf king of Oklahoma." Torn between two clans, Lucy eventually realizes that she must reconcile her universes in order to find what she has been searching for all along. Herself.

About the Author:

Linda Phillips Ashour is the author of four acclaimed novels, including Sweet Remedy and Joy Baby, hailed by The New York Times as "sprawling, humorous, epic fiction." She has also written short stories which have appeared in The Paris Review and The North American Review. She is a past recipient of the prestigious Beck Fellowship from Denison University and has been a fellow at Yaddo. She teaches writing at UCLA Extension and lives in Los Angeles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0671640909
• ISBN 13: 9780671640903
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 223