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Duchess of Nothing

by Heather McGowan

Format:  Paperback
Published:  March 2007
Category:  General
Publisher:  St Martins Pr
Pages:  224

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A distinctly odd and singularly enchanting second novel by Heather McGowan, DUCHESS OF NOTHING centers on the peculiar relationship between a young female narrator and a 7-year old boy, both unnamed. The woman has divorced her husband and come to Rome to live with a lover, Edmund, but soon enough he has abandoned her, leaving her as the dubious caretaker of his half-brother. The two form an eccentric bond, with the narrator providing off-handed lessons on the fruitlessness of marriage, counterfeit money, and the art of playing dead, and the boy responding with equanimity. The joys of the book spring from the narrator's unexpected, arch, and poetic musings, and the unusual love that forms between woman and child.

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