The Divine Husband

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Grove Press
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2004
Edition: First Edition

Description: 468 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. Maria,a Novice Nun Forced Into The Secular World By A Revolution.

Publishers Description: One of the most talented and award-winning writers of his generation, Francisco Goldmans third novel, The Divine Husband, appeared to wide and rapturous acclaim. Beginning with a single, possibly scandalous love poem by Jose Marti, Cubas greatest revolutionary-poet-hero with an infamous secret love life, The Divine Husband is the story of Maria de las Nieves Moran, a former nun forced out of her convent by a revolution in a Central American capital. While making her way in this metropolis nicknamed The Little Paris,� she enrolls in a writing class taught by Jose Marti, under whose spell Maria de las Nieves and her classmates quickly fall. Soon after, Maria de las Nieves flees her home for New York, where Marti has also relocated -- a crucial interval that shaped Martis consciousness. Nearly a century later, an elderly woman in Massachusetts hires a college student to investigate her claim that she is the illegitimate offspring of Marti and Maria de las Nieves. Mixing a lovingly re-created historical past with often hilarious, ironic, and moving conjecture that brings to life an unforgettable heroine and her remarkable collection of friends, nemeses, and rival suitors, The Divine Husband is a magnificent American novel.

ISBN: 9780802142214