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The deceptions / Jill Bialosky.

Bialosky, Jill, (author.).

Summary:
"A middle-aged poet finds herself adrift in her marriage and life now that her child has moved away to college. Her job teaching Greek myth to high school boys at a prestigious New York City academy has its small pleasures-her students offer surprising insights to stories she's studied for decades-but as her debut poetry collection approaches publication she starts to notice the seams of her life becoming unloosed. The chorus of voices in her life -- a mysterious neighbor in a potentially dangerous situation, a visiting poet at the academy struggling with writer's block, the word-starved dialogue with her distant husband --start to become overwhelming. She finds solace only at the Met, its history and sculptures beckon as a comfort and a warning for what happens to people who love wrongly, who love ambitions. The collapse of her life reaches a fever pitch just as betrayals are revealed all around her, and she must confront the realities of her life or be lost to its mythology forever. Suffused with the motifs of classic Greek mythology, especially the story of Leda and the Swan, THE DECEPTIONS is a seductively told, deeply moving exploration of female sexuality and ambition and a celebration of beauty and the invisible yet powerful ties that bind together a marriage, a life, work of art and its beholder"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781640090248
  • ISBN: 164009024X
  • Physical Description: 289 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First Counterpoint edition.
  • Publisher: Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, 2022.
Subject: Poets > Fiction.
High school teachers > New York (State) > New York > Fiction.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction.
Betrayal > Fiction.

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  • 6 of 6 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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  • 0 current holds with 6 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Frackville Free Public Library FICBI (Text) 30459000383960 Adult Fiction Available -
Glatfelter Memorial Library Adults BIA Fiction (Text) 34216000957615 Adult Area Available -
Milton Public Library A BIA (Text) 33226001072596 MLTM Adult Fiction Available -
Parkland Community Library F BIA (Text) 34422007271485 Adult Fiction Available -
Reading Public Library RPL - Main Fiction Bialosky (Text) 33223008947276 Fiction Available -
Clymer Library FIC BIA (Text) 32596000530161 Adult Fiction Available -

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