From one of the most perceptive, compassionate writers of fiction in America...immensely talented and brave (Michael Schaub, NPR), a historical saga about love, class, and the past we never escape.The Peacock Feast opens on a June day in 1916 when Louis C. Tiffany, the eccentric glass genius, dynamites the breakwater at Laurelton Hallhis fantastical Oyster Bay mansion, with columns capped by brilliant ceramic blossoms and a smokestack hidden in a bluebanded minaretso as to foil the town from reclaiming the beach for public use. The explosion shakes both the apple crate where Prudence, the daughter of Tiffanys prized gardener, is sleeping and the rocks where Randall, her sevenyearold brother, is playing.Nearly a century later, Prudence receives an unexpected visit at her New York apartment from Grace, a hospice nurse and the granddaughter of Randall, who Prudence never saw again after he left at age fourteen for California. The mementos Grace carries from her grandfathers house stir Prudences longrepressed memories and bring her to a new understanding of the choices she made in work and love, and what she faces now in her final days.Spanning the twentieth century and three continents, The Peacock Feast ricochets from Manhattan to San Francisco, from the decadent mansions of the Tiffany family to the death row of a Texas prison, and from the London consultation room of Anna Freud to a Mendocino commune. With psychological acuity and aching eloquence, Lisa Gornick has...

Binding: Hardback;304 pages; Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc; Classification: FA; Weight: 624 g; Dimensions: 189 x 236 x 30

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