The Resource The mermaid chair, Sue Monk Kidd
The mermaid chair, Sue Monk Kidd
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Resource Information
The item The mermaid chair, Sue Monk Kidd represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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- Summary
- Jessie Sullivan has been married half her life, and has become accustomed to her role. But when she returns to the isolated island she grew up on to establish why her mother has been behaving oddly, she is to find a lot more than she came looking for. A loving, exuberant character, who believes herself to be happy, she has forgotten a hidden part of her spirit - the part represented by the beautiful, vibrant and legendary mermaid carved on a chair in the island's monastery. When Jessie falls passionately in love with a monk who is close to taking his final vows, she discovers a place in herself that she had never previously imagined could exist
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 403 p.
- Note
- Originally published: 2005
- Isbn
- 9780755307630
- Label
- The mermaid chair
- Title
- The mermaid chair
- Statement of responsibility
- Sue Monk Kidd
- Subject
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- trueHusband and wife
- Married women -- South Carolina -- Fiction
- trueMonasteries
- trueMonks
- trueMother and adult daughter
- trueSelf-discovery in women
- trueSelf-harm
- trueSouth Carolina
- South Carolina -- Fiction
- trueSouthern fiction
- trueSpiritual life
- trueBenedictine monasteries
- trueBenedictines
- Benedictines -- Fiction
- trueCatholic women
- trueChristian life
- trueDesire
- trueFamily secrets
- trueFathers -- Death
- trueGuilt
- trueHomecomings
- trueIslands
- trueMainstream fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Jessie Sullivan has been married half her life, and has become accustomed to her role. But when she returns to the isolated island she grew up on to establish why her mother has been behaving oddly, she is to find a lot more than she came looking for. A loving, exuberant character, who believes herself to be happy, she has forgotten a hidden part of her spirit - the part represented by the beautiful, vibrant and legendary mermaid carved on a chair in the island's monastery. When Jessie falls passionately in love with a monk who is close to taking his final vows, she discovers a place in herself that she had never previously imagined could exist
- Summary
- Jessie Sullivan is summoned home to tiny Egret Island, where she meets Brother Thomas, a monk who is about to take his final vows, and encounters the legend of a mysterious chair dedicated to a saint who had originally been a mermaid
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- 132455
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kidd, Sue Monk
- Dewey number
- 813.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Benedictines
- Married women
- South Carolina
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The mermaid chair, Sue Monk Kidd
- Note
- Originally published: 2005
- Control code
- 000041692893
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 403 p.
- Isbn
- 9780755307630
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Label
- The mermaid chair, Sue Monk Kidd
- Note
- Originally published: 2005
- Control code
- 000041692893
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 403 p.
- Isbn
- 9780755307630
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
Subject
- trueHusband and wife
- Married women -- South Carolina -- Fiction
- trueMonasteries
- trueMonks
- trueMother and adult daughter
- trueSelf-discovery in women
- trueSelf-harm
- trueSouth Carolina
- South Carolina -- Fiction
- trueSouthern fiction
- trueSpiritual life
- trueBenedictine monasteries
- trueBenedictines
- Benedictines -- Fiction
- trueCatholic women
- trueChristian life
- trueDesire
- trueFamily secrets
- trueFathers -- Death
- trueGuilt
- trueHomecomings
- trueIslands
- trueMainstream fiction
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