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- All the beloved ghosts / by MacLeod, Alison,1964-author.;
A woman emerging from mourning spends her savings on a fur coat, a coat she will wear to a dance that will change her life. A professor of cardiovascular physiology lingers on the cusp of consciousness as he waits for his new heart to be delivered, still beating, from another body--and is carried on a tidal wave of memories to an attic room half a century ago. Visiting Sylvia Plath's grave in Yorkshire, the author imagines a conversation with the poet, a fellow North American who settled in grey England. She reflects on the treasured photograph of Princess Diana she took as a teenager, one of a multitude taken during a life cut short. And at Charleston, Angelica Garnett, child of the Bloomsbury group, is overpowered by echoes of the past; by all the beloved ghosts that spring to life before her eyes. MacLeod's characters hover on the border of life and death, where memory is most vivid and the present most elusive. Moving from the London riots of 2011 to 1920s Nova Scotia, from Oscar Wilde's grave to the Brighton Pier, these exquisitely formed stories capture the small tragedies and profound truths of existence.- Subjects: Short stories.;
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- Tenderness / by MacLeod, Alison,1964-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."From the Booker-longlisted author of Unexploded comes the story of a famed novelist living in exile and the most memorable first lady to ever enter the White House, bonded through time and space by a subversive literary masterpiece that would come to shape history ... It's 1928, in the blazing heat of the Italian Riviera, and D.H. Lawrence struggles to breathe. Stricken with tuberculosis, he lives in exile from Britain after the public outrage over his salacious novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover. His memories drift back into the glittering years of the roaring 20s and to the crisp white winter of 1915 spent in the Sussex countryside. Unhappily married, he cannot shake the memory of the enigmatic woman he met that winter, on whom he would later base his most beloved protagonist, the wild and free-loving Constance Reid--the infamous Lady Chatterely herself. Thirty years later, Jackie Onassis finds herself trapped in a fraught marriage, consumed by rumours of extramarital affairs. Looking for an escape, she gets her hands on Lawrence's contraband novel. Jackie is instantly and completely enamoured by the lust-filled pages and his story of a love affair free of politics--so much so that she turns her attention away from the 1960s election and to a new cause: liberating Lawrence's still-controversial novel from the shackles of obscenity laws and bringing his radical views to the world. An evocative account of two revolutionaries worlds apart, connected in their fight for free-love, Constance pulls back the curtain and shows us the human struggle that lies beneath their celebrity status. Lawrence's path to exile and Jackie's rise to becoming the most scrutinized First Lady are interwoven to tell a story of heartbreak and redemption that moves between the 1920s and 1960s, from America to England to Italy to and back again."--- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930.; Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994; Censorship; Novelists, English;
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