Type designer Ed Austin is on a losing streak. Divorced, and with his daughter studying abroad, he has only an old dog for a companion. His world has contracted into something simple, solitary�and safe. But after acquiring a dozen handwritten letters forgotten in the barn of an old Maine farmhouse, Ed finds himself haunted by thoughts of a nineteenth-century woman named Lydia Starbird. At first he�s enchanted by her penmanship, and then the life she describes in her letters�each addressed to a cruel husband who cannot read. When finally he encounters Lydia herself, he starts to question everything.
Is she a ghost? A time traveler? Or the invention of a yearning soul?
With precise attention to the subtleties of human emotion and vivid description of the natural world, Lydia tells a haunting tale of carrying on in the face of loss.
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Is she a ghost? A time traveler? Or the invention of a yearning soul?
With precise attention to the subtleties of human emotion and vivid description of the natural world, Lydia tells a haunting tale of carrying on in the face of loss.
Lydia
Type designer Ed Austin is on a losing streak. Divorced, and with his daughter studying abroad, he has only an old dog for a companion. His world has contracted into something simple, solitary�and safe. But after acquiring a dozen handwritten letters forgotten in the barn of an old Maine farmhouse, Ed finds himself haunted by thoughts of a nineteenth-century woman named Lydia Starbird. At first he�s enchanted by her penmanship, and then the life she describes in her letters�each addressed to a cruel husband who cannot read. When finally he encounters Lydia herself, he starts to question everything.
Is she a ghost? A time traveler? Or the invention of a yearning soul?
With precise attention to the subtleties of human emotion and vivid description of the natural world, Lydia tells a haunting tale of carrying on in the face of loss.
Is she a ghost? A time traveler? Or the invention of a yearning soul?
With precise attention to the subtleties of human emotion and vivid description of the natural world, Lydia tells a haunting tale of carrying on in the face of loss.
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940016775616 |
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| Publisher: | Three Islands Press |
| Publication date: | 03/27/2013 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 300 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
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