Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue : a novel /

A bourgeois mother's quest in 1930s Chicago to learn about her dead daughter, a bohemian artist with whom she never got on. The quest takes Carrie Kinsella through the shocking world of jazz, alcohol and sex--but also of her daughter's paintings--and she emerges from her journey filled wit...

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Main Author:	Purdy, James, 1914-2009 (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : William Morrow and Company, [1997]
Edition:	First U.S. edition.
Subjects:	Mothers and daughters > Fiction. Loss (Psychology) > Fiction. Housewives > Fiction. Painters > Fiction. Housewives. Loss (Psychology) Mothers and daughters. Painters. Chicago (Ill.) > Fiction. Illinois > Chicago. Psychological fiction. Fiction.