Spelling Mississippi

Fiction & Literature
Cover of the book Spelling Mississippi by Marnie Woodrow, Knopf Canada
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Marnie Woodrow ISBN: 9780307366245
Publisher: Knopf Canada Publication: July 27, 2011
Imprint: Vintage Canada Language: English
Author: Marnie Woodrow
ISBN: 9780307366245
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Publication: July 27, 2011
Imprint: Vintage Canada
Language: English

From an acclaimed short-story writer, a blazingly intelligent and humorous debut novel that is set in New Orleans and tells the story of two strangers whose paths first cross on the remarkable banks of the Mississippi.

Cleo, a Canadian on holiday in New Orleans, is sitting alone in the French Quarter late one night, dreamily watching the river’s lazy progress. Suddenly, a woman clad in full evening dress, from rhinestone tiara to high heels, takes a running leap off the wharf into the Mississippi. Cleo watches, astonished, then turns and runs, mistakenly assuming the jumper is dead — a suicide.

But Madeline, it turns out, is not bent on suicide. She is irresistibly drawn to water, as is Cleo, who was conceived during the great flood in Florence in 1966. Perhaps it is this shared obsession with the murky depths that fuels Cleo’s determination to find Madeline. She pounds the quaint streets of New Orleans, city of cheap bourbon, rich turtle soup, the scent of magnolias and A Streetcar Named Desire.

Spelling Mississippi is filled with all the bristling energy of Fall on Your Knees. Told with great humour and affection, it is a seductive, liberating story about ties that bind and those that simply restrain, and a lesson not in spelling but forgiveness.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

From an acclaimed short-story writer, a blazingly intelligent and humorous debut novel that is set in New Orleans and tells the story of two strangers whose paths first cross on the remarkable banks of the Mississippi.

Cleo, a Canadian on holiday in New Orleans, is sitting alone in the French Quarter late one night, dreamily watching the river’s lazy progress. Suddenly, a woman clad in full evening dress, from rhinestone tiara to high heels, takes a running leap off the wharf into the Mississippi. Cleo watches, astonished, then turns and runs, mistakenly assuming the jumper is dead — a suicide.

But Madeline, it turns out, is not bent on suicide. She is irresistibly drawn to water, as is Cleo, who was conceived during the great flood in Florence in 1966. Perhaps it is this shared obsession with the murky depths that fuels Cleo’s determination to find Madeline. She pounds the quaint streets of New Orleans, city of cheap bourbon, rich turtle soup, the scent of magnolias and A Streetcar Named Desire.

Spelling Mississippi is filled with all the bristling energy of Fall on Your Knees. Told with great humour and affection, it is a seductive, liberating story about ties that bind and those that simply restrain, and a lesson not in spelling but forgiveness.

More books from Knopf Canada

Cover of the book Come Back by Marnie Woodrow
Cover of the book Cold Fire by Marnie Woodrow
Cover of the book Maximum Canada by Marnie Woodrow
Cover of the book The Birthday Lunch by Marnie Woodrow
Cover of the book Just Watch Me by Marnie Woodrow
Cover of the book Finnie Walsh by Marnie Woodrow
Cover of the book All of Me by Marnie Woodrow
Cover of the book Jack: A Life With Writers by Marnie Woodrow
Cover of the book This Crazy Time by Marnie Woodrow
Cover of the book Citizen of the World by Marnie Woodrow
Cover of the book The Sudden Disappearance of Seetha by Marnie Woodrow
Cover of the book Captivity by Marnie Woodrow
Cover of the book Song of the Caged Bird by Marnie Woodrow
Cover of the book Navigating a New World by Marnie Woodrow
Cover of the book The Life Of Margaret Laurence by Marnie Woodrow
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy