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Almost Strangers
Author: Delsa Winer

At forty, Ursula Kornfield Gant believes she is independent of the usual pleasures people seek and connections they covet. She lives alone, although there are men who've had, for a while, resident status. She doesn't own a television, rarely sees a movie. At the news kiosk in Harvard Square she hovers, ghostlike, over the racks. She realizes tha... more »t some people, Daniel, in particular, consider her pretentious. He doesn't say this; he says she's perfect, but he loves her in spite of it, and in fact her only flaw is that she doesn't know one person in People. Books are Ursula's passion. Immersed one night in The Times Literary Supplement, Ursula reaches for the ringing phone. "Ursula," a woman's voice says. "This is Delray, the third-floor nurse at Woodside." Her old yellow Labrador beside her in bed flicks open his eyelids. She wonders if he instinctively feels it, her sense that something that matters to her more than anything else in her whole life is about to change. Thus begins Delsa Winer's extraordinary and compelling novel, at once terrifying and full of hope, part romantic tale, part Grand Guignol. When her mother dies, Ursula Gant is shattered. Secluding herself, she retreats behind a literal wall of beloved books. But not even this barricade of fiction can safeguard her from a spell of hallucinations. When the wall collapses, Ursula bolts to the airport, abandoning Daniel, her lover, and the safe boundaries of her life. Meanwhile, Daniel's wife, Cissy, a fading beauty queen, is tormented by a different sort of loss. Devastated by the knowledge of her husband's betrayal, Cissy boards a plane to Athens -- the same plane that Ursula is on. The plane crashes, and in the aftermath one of Daniel's two fleeing women disappears -- her body is never recovered. The other, horribly burned, regains consciousness, but, without any memory and with an unrecognizable face, she ventures into the world alone, unloved and unknowable, uncertain of the future, unable to return to the past.... Almost Strangers is a novel of rebirth, new identity, fate, and mortality -- above all of the urge to seek and embrace freedom. Full of intelligence and wit, it is the eagerly anticipated debut novel of a celebrated short-story writer. At once ironic, and moving, it is a love sotry, a suspense story, and a novel of ideas about two absolutely fascinating women.

ISBN-13: 9780684868189
ISBN-10: 0684868180
Publication Date: 10/4/2000
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Simon Schuster
Book Type: Hardcover
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