The Archivist
by:
Martha Cooley (author)
A young woman's impassioned pursuit of a sealed cache of T. S. Eliot's letters lies at the heart of this emotionally charged novel -- a story of marriage and madness, of faith and desire, of jazz-age New York and Europe in the shadow of the Holocaust. The Archivist was a word-of-mouth bestseller...
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A young woman's impassioned pursuit of a sealed cache of T. S. Eliot's letters lies at the heart of this emotionally charged novel -- a story of marriage and madness, of faith and desire, of jazz-age New York and Europe in the shadow of the Holocaust. The Archivist was a word-of-mouth bestseller and one of the most jubilantly acclaimed first novels of recent years.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780316158466 (0316158461)
Publish date: April 8th 1999
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Writing,
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Books About Books,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
Contemporary,
Poetry
I'm participating in a twenty-four hour read-a-thon. I chose this as my first read (or half-read, as I was already up to page 175 when I started the read-a-thon).Thoughts about the book: This book reminds me in many ways of one of my all-time favorite reads, Possession. The novel has several storyli...