Her fearful symmetry: a novel
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New York : Scribner, 2009.
Physical Desc:
406 pages ; ill. ; 24 cm.
Lexile measure:
690L
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From the author of the #1 bestselling The Time Traveler's Wife, a spectacularly compelling novel—set in and near Highgate Cemetery in London, about the love between twins, men and women, ghosts and the living.
Julia and Valentina Poole are twenty-year-old sisters with an intense attachment to each other. One morning the mailman delivers a thick envelope to their house in the suburbs of Chicago. Their English aunt Elspeth Noblin has died of cancer and left them her London apartment. There are two conditions for this inheritance: that they live in the flat for a year before they sell it and that their parents not enter it. Julia and Valentina are twins. So were the girls' aunt Elspeth and their mother, Edie.
The girls move to Elspeth's flat, which borders the vast Highgate Cemetery, where Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Stella Gibbons, and other luminaries are buried. Julia and Valentina become involved with their living neighbors: Martin, a composer of crossword puzzles who suffers from crippling OCD, and Robert, Elspeth's elusive lover, a scholar of the cemetery. They also discover that much is still alive in Highgate, including—perhaps—their aunt.
Julia and Valentina Poole are twenty-year-old sisters with an intense attachment to each other. One morning the mailman delivers a thick envelope to their house in the suburbs of Chicago. Their English aunt Elspeth Noblin has died of cancer and left them her London apartment. There are two conditions for this inheritance: that they live in the flat for a year before they sell it and that their parents not enter it. Julia and Valentina are twins. So were the girls' aunt Elspeth and their mother, Edie.
The girls move to Elspeth's flat, which borders the vast Highgate Cemetery, where Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Stella Gibbons, and other luminaries are buried. Julia and Valentina become involved with their living neighbors: Martin, a composer of crossword puzzles who suffers from crippling OCD, and Robert, Elspeth's elusive lover, a scholar of the cemetery. They also discover that much is still alive in Highgate, including—perhaps—their aunt.
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Format:
Book
Edition:
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781439165393 (hardcover), 1439165394 (hardcover), 9781439169018 (pbk.), 1439169012 (pbk.)
Lexile measure:
690
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APA Citation (style guide)
Niffenegger, A. (2009). Her fearful symmetry: a novel. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York, Scribner.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Niffenegger, Audrey. 2009. Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel. New York, Scribner.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Niffenegger, Audrey, Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel. New York, Scribner, 2009.
MLA Citation (style guide)Niffenegger, Audrey. Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel. 1st Scribner hardcover ed. New York, Scribner, 2009.
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