Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/009183532/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 29 of
29
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract ""Sarah's aunt Edna paints portraits of chairs. Not people in chairs, just chairs. The old house is filled with the paintings, and the chairs themselves surround her work-a silent yet vigilant audience. At the funeral of Grandma Hutton-whom Edna has cared for through an agonizingly long and vague illness-Sarah begins helping her aunt clean up the last of a life. This includes honoring Grandma's surprising wish to have her ashes scattered in Scotland. "We were two fat women, eighteen years apart, a chair artist and a designer of Christmas ornaments, who only knew we had troubles and a hot summer to get through," says Sarah. But as it turns out, there is a great deal more to quirky Aunt Edna's troubles than Sarah could possibly imagine. As the novel turns from the hot, oppressive heat of Texas to the misty beauty of Scotland, she learns of her aunt's remarkable secret life and comes to fully understand the fragile business of living, and even of dying. Praised for his richly drawn characters and as a master storyteller, Joe Coomer is at the height of his powers in One Vacant Chair." ... from publisher's description.".
- catalog contributor b12941988.
- catalog coverage "Scotland Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "Texas Fiction.".
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Sarah's aunt Edna paints portraits of chairs. Not people in chairs, just chairs. The old house is filled with the paintings, and the chairs themselves surround her work-a silent yet vigilant audience. At the funeral of Grandma Hutton-whom Edna has cared for through an agonizingly long and vague illness-Sarah begins helping her aunt clean up the last of a life. This includes honoring Grandma's surprising wish to have her ashes scattered in Scotland. "We were two fat women, eighteen years apart, a chair artist and a designer of Christmas ornaments, who only knew we had troubles and a hot summer to get through," says Sarah. But as it turns out, there is a great deal more to quirky Aunt Edna's troubles than Sarah could possibly imagine. As the novel turns from the hot, oppressive heat of Texas to the misty beauty of Scotland, she learns of her aunt's remarkable secret life and comes to fully understand the fragile business of living, and even of dying. Praised for his richly drawn characters and as a master storyteller, Joe Coomer is at the height of his powers in One Vacant Chair." ... from publisher's description.".
- catalog extent "273 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "One vacant chair.".
- catalog identifier "155597385X".
- catalog isFormatOf "One vacant chair.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press,".
- catalog relation "One vacant chair.".
- catalog spatial "Scotland Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Texas Fiction.".
- catalog subject "813/.54 22".
- catalog subject "Aunts Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Nieces Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3553.O574 O54 2003".
- catalog title "One vacant chair / Joe Coomer.".
- catalog type "Domestic fiction lcsh".
- catalog type "Domestic fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "Domestic fiction.".
- catalog type "text".