Ladies of the Rachmaninoff eyes
Van Dyke, Henry, 1928-2024
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In a small Michigan town, in the late 1950s, the widow Etta Klein - wealthy and Jewish - has for more than thirty years relied for aid, comfort, and companionship on her Black housekeeper Harriet Gibbs. Between 'Aunt Harry' and Etta, a relationship has developed that is closer than a friendship, yet not quite a marriage. They are inseparable, at once absurdly unequal and defined by a comic codependence. Forever mourning the early death of her favorite son, Sargent, Etta has all but adopted Aunt Harry's nephew, the precocious, gay seventeen-year-old Oliver, who has been raised by both women. Oliver is facing down his departure to college - and fending off the advances of Etta's cook, Nella Mae - when the household is disrupted by the arrival of a selfproclaimed 'warlock', one Maurice LeFleur, who has convinced Etta and Harry that he might be able to contact Sargent in the afterlife.
Main title:
Ladies of the Rachmaninoff eyes / Henry Van Dyke ; foreword by Erik Wood.
Author:
Van Dyke, Henry, 1928-, author
Imprint:
New York : McNally Editions, 2024.
Collation:
176 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781946022882 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
BRN:
2442801