The Girls
| Author/creator | Yglesias, Helen Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Delphinium Books [Imprint] New York : Open Road Integrated Media, LLC |
| Description | 192 p. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Summary | Annotation These days the news is full of reports about the graying of America, yet its rare that old people appear in contemporary fiction except as stock characters: the indulgent grandmother, the wicked witch. In her first novel in a dozen years, the acclaimed author of How She Died and Sweetsir gives us four grand old ladies, sisters, each unique and indelibly real, in a poignant and very funny story about the last American taboos, old age and dying.As the novel opens, Jenny, the youngest at eighty, has flown down to Miamithat gaudy, pastel-hued haven of the elderlyto look after her two failing oldest sisters: Eva, ninety-five, always the family mainstay, and Naomi, ninety, who is riddled with cancer but still has her tart tongue and her jet-black head of hair. The fourth sister, Flora, still has her black hair too, straight out of the bottle, but no head for the hard decisions facing Eva and Naomi. An energetic eighty-five, Flora spends her time dating (Hes mad about me, I only hope he can get it up!) and making the rounds of the retirement homes with her standup routine, the Sandra Bernhard of the senior set.The Girls gives us these four full-if-wrinkled-fleshed women with all their complaints and foibles, their self-absorption and downright orneriness, their unquenchable humor and immense courage. Aches and pains, wrinkles and hearing aids, wheelchairs and walkersout of these, and out of the human spirit, Helen Yglesias fashions a novel that moves us, opens our eyes, and makes us laugh out loud. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781453255810 |
| ISBN | 1453255818 (E-Book) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9781453255810 |
| Stock number | 01521375 |