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Books
nominated for the 2000 Award
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The
World I Made for Her
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ISBN: 1573227315 (USA); 0749004517 (UK) |
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The
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Other books by this author: The Man in the Box
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James Blatchely breathes and eats
through tubes, slipping in and out of a coma. Nuala is the Irish immigrant
nurse who coaxes him toward survival. The strange synergy of their relationship
is both his link to reality and his inspiration to fantasy. This is the
hypnotic story of the world that grows in the silence between them. Nuala
means "white shoulders" in Gaelic, and Nuala`s wild red hair falls in
disarray over hers. With long fingers that stretch out from delicate wrists,
she moves deftly around James: changing his IV, attaching a fresh respirator
tube. Nuala`s movements are like dance to him, and through his morphine-clouded
mind he hears her Irish spirit sing against the metronome of the life-support
machines. He is drawn to the warmth of her. He is obsessed. He carries
Nuala in and out of consciousness with him, writing a secret love story
in which she is unknowingly the heroine.
Thomas Moran divides his time between Woodstock and Europe with his wife and son. He is also the author of The Man in the Box. His novels have been translated into five languages. |
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