Claire Marvel: A Novel

A young man and woman meet, love each other, and are consumed. It’s a story as old as romance itself, but in this enthralling novel John Burnham Schwartz tells it with heart-stopping new immediacy. In the middle of a rainstorm Julian Rose, a self-effacing Harvard graduate student, takes refuge beneath a girl’s yellow umbrella. The girl, the woman, is Claire Marvel, lovely, mercurial, mired in family tragedy. She is the last person someone like Ju...

By John Burnham Schwartz
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (March 11, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0375719156
ISBN-13: 978-0375719158
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.8 x 8 inches
Amazon Rank: 2963415
Format: PDF ePub djvu book

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Having read and admired Reservation Road, I had fairly high hopes for this book. Sadly, those hopes were not realized. Hero Julian seems to come alive only in those scenes that don't involve Claire. His scenes with her reveal a young man who is the p

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