Bibliograph

Briefly, a delicious life, a novel, Nell Stevens

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Briefly, a delicious life, a novel, Nell Stevens

Language

eng

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Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

Briefly, a delicious life

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Oclc number

1331149950

Responsibility statement

Nell Stevens

Sub title

a novel

Summary

In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in childbirth in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, and her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Blanca is still there: a spirited, funny, righteous ghost, she's been hanging around the monastery since her accidental death, spying on the monks and the townspeople and keeping track of her descendants. Blanca is enchanted the moment she sees George, and the magical novel unfolds as a story of deeply felt, unrequited longing, the impossible love of a teenage ghost for a woman who can't see her and doesn₂t know she exists. As George and Chopin, who wear their unconventionality, in George's case, literally on their sleeves, find themselves in deepening trouble with the provincial, 19th-century villagers, Blanca watches helplessly and reflects on the circumstances of her own death

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