Demons & Divas: 3 Novels (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780929701592)

For this trilogy of short novels--her first new book in six years--Ursule Molinaro drew upon a wealth of sources (including Balzac, Flaubert, and Hildegard of Bingen) to transform the grotesqueries of our time into timeless tales.

Angel on Fire presents Clara Corvo, who was born with three peculiarities--a cloven hoof, phenomenal intelligence, and clairvoyance. Her mother finds her unbearable, and to escape her family takes a young student as a lover. When six-year-old Clara matriculates at Harvard Law School, an almost classical conclusion is inevitable.

In twenty letters gathered for the pending canonization of Jacob Erskine Wooster, a picture emerges not of humility but of large contraditions in an ordinary man whose beatification is as strange as his life. Saint Boy is Diane Arbus in prose.

In April in Paris, Molinaro spins Southern gothic into French embroidery. An American woman out of her element wherever she happens to be.

Author: Ursule Molinaro
ISBN-10: 0929701593
ISBN-13: 9780929701592
Publisher: McPherson
Language: English
Published: 11/01/1999
Pages: 242
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.85h x 5.80w x 0.86d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/18/1999 pg. 72
New York Times 06/25/2000 pg. 19