Father Melancholy's Daughter
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: Franklin Library, 1991. First Edition. Full Leather. Fine / No Jacket as Issued. Item #5151
A handsome lavender leather First Edition signed by the author, Gail Godwin. In fine unread condition. With gold-gilt cover designs and page edges, and bound-in silk bookmark. By the author of "The Perfectionists," "Glass People," "The Odd Woman," "Violet Clay," "A Mother and Two Daughters," a best seller, "Mr. Bedford and the Muses," "The Finishing School," and "A Southern Family." An important Southern author.
Kirkus Reviews praised "Father Melancholy's Daughter" as "a handsomely rewarding novel...Godwin continues her probes into the chimeric stuff of family bonds-- bonds within which old passions and deceits and people and affections can tower into myth." The title explores a multi-generational family conflict and the conflicted obsessions that can weave family together. Lee Smith of the LA Times (1991) reviewed the novel as "elegant, intelligent and necessary."
Writing in the 70s, 80s and 90s, Godwin often addressed topics that the writing community labeled as 'female issues,' re-framing them as universal human experiences.
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