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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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The Allegra Series

The Allegra Series

Lambert, Barbara

Paperback

RomanceClassic FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 088878399X
ISBN13: 9780888783998
Publisher: Dundurn Pr Ltd
Published: Sep 16 1999
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

Weaving finely spun filaments of the lyric and mythic, Barbara Lambert creates a vivid tapestry of a year in the life of Vancouver's Allegra Schliemann, a middle-aged woman in the throes of a knotty love affair with a married man, a newly-crafted career as an artisan and a battle against a debilitating disease. Unable to see her way clear of the emotional clutter these changes wreak, Allegra hires would-be artist Brad Lindhall to fashion her a mirrored wall, praying it will bring light and clarity into the encroaching dusk of her own life. Meanwhile, in Toronto, Brad's estranged wife Mona researches a work known as A Brief History of Cloth and Clay for an upcoming installation, her voice reaching into the past and across the country. In this brilliant recasting of a traditional love triangle, three artists find their way into the heart of genius, and of darkness, emerging strangely and irrevocably intertwined. Like her many mythological predecessors -- Philomela, Ariadne and Athena -- Allegra encircles lovers, entraps enemies and unfurls in the face of adversity.

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