CAROLYN PARKHURST

07/09/2010 7:00 pm

Author of two well-received novels, The Dogs of Babel and Lost and Found, Carolyn Parkhurst makes this welcome Elliott Bay return for her newest, The Nobodies Album (Doubleday). This is literary cloak-and-dagger work of a high order—protagonist Octavia Frost is a novelist starts rewriting the ending of her books in order to hide clues about her life, which could lead to disclosure of family secrets she does not want revealed. "Parkhurst returns with the story of Octavia Frost: widow, successful novelist, and estranged mother of Milo, lead singer of an up-and-coming band ... their separation ends when Octavia learns that Milo has been arrested for the murder of his girlfriend ... Parkhurst's voice sucks the reader in immediately—the gift of a real storyteller." - Publishers Weekly.

The Nobodies Album (Hardcover)

$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780385527699
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Doubleday, 6/2010

Location: 
Street:
The Elliott Bay Book Company
Additional:
1521 Tenth Avenue
City:
Seattle
,
Province:
Washington
Postal Code:
98122
Country:
United States