Father Melancholy’s Daughter by Gail Godwin

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Gail Godwin
• Title: Father Melancholy's Daughter
• Publisher: ‎ William Morrow & Company; First Edition (January 1, 1991)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 404 pages‏
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0688065317
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0688065317
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.5 pounds
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"
• Book Condition: Used – Good (Shows some minor discoloration on page edges)
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Edition: First Edition

Synopsis:

The novels of Gail Godwin are contemporary classics–evocative, powerfully affecting, beautifully crafted fiction alive with endearing, unforgettable characters. Her critically acclaimed work has placed her among the ranks of Eudora Welty, Pat Conroy, and Carson McCullers, firmly establishing Godwin as a Southern literary novelist for the ages.

Father Melancholy's Daughter, is widely recognized as one of the author's most poignant and accomplished novels — a bittersweet and ultimately transcendent story of a young girl's devotion to her father, the rector of a small Virginia church, and of the hope, dreams, and love that sustain them both in the wake of the betrayal and tragedy that diminished their family.

About the Author:

Gail Godwin is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the bestselling author of twelve critically acclaimed novels, including Unfinished Desires, A Mother and Two Daughters, Violet Clay, Father Melancholy's Daughter, Evensong, The Good Husband, and Evenings at Five.

She is also the author of The Making of a Writer: Journals, 1961–1963, the first of two volumes, edited by Rob Neufeld. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts grants for both fiction and libretto writing, and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

She has written libretti for ten musical works with the composer Robert Starer.

She lives in Woodstock, New York.