The next queen of heaven a novel
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- ISBN: 9780062023711 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0062023713 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (347 p.) - Edition: 1st Harper pbk. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Harper, 2010.
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Subject: | City and town life -- New York (State) -- Fiction Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction Mothers and daughters -- Fiction Teenagers -- Fiction New York (State) -- Fiction |
Genre: | EBOOK. Electronic books. |
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Summary:
"As the new millennium approaches, the eccentric town of Thebes grows even stranger. Clocked by a Catholic statuette, Mrs. Leontina Scales begins speaking in tongues. Her daughter, Tabitha Scales, and her sons scheme to save their mother or surrender her to Jesus--whatever comes first. Meanwhile, choir director Jeremy Carr, caught between lust and ambition, fumbles his way toward Y2K. Only a modern master like Gregory Maguire can spin a tale this frantic, funny, and farcical. The ancient Sisters of the Sorrowful Mysteries join with a gay singing group. The Radical Radiants battle the Catholics. A Christmas pageant goes horribly awry. And a child is born. THE NEXT QUEEN OF HEAVEN is Maguire's most imaginative story yet"--