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Our lady of the prairie, Thisbe Nissen

Label
Our lady of the prairie, Thisbe Nissen
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
novels
Main title
Our lady of the prairie
Oclc number
1005795801
Responsibility statement
Thisbe Nissen
Summary
After falling headlong into a passionate affair during a semester spent teaching in Ohio, theater professor Phillipa Maakestad returns home to Iowa for her daughter Ginny's wedding. She faces a wedding-day tornado, a menace of a mother-in-law who may or may not have been a Nazi collaborator, and the tragicomic revenge fantasies of her heretofore docile husband. Naturally, she does what any newly liberated woman would do: she takes a match to her life on the prairie and then steps back to survey the wreckage
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