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Crocodile Soup: a Novel
Julia Darling
Crocodile Soup: a Novel
Julia Darling
Gert Hardcastle is thirty-something and unlucky in love. She is also estranged from her mother. As Crocodile Soup opens, she thinks she has found "the One" -- the enigmatic Eva, who serves coffee at the cafeteria in the museum where Gert works as a curator cataloging Egyptian artifacts. As Gert embarks on her hilarious and poignant pursuit of Eva, she looks back on her eccentric, childhood through a series of vivid and surreal flashbacks: her obsessive twin, Frank, with whom she communicates telepathically; her father, George, who vanished to Africa to salvage the family crocodile farm; her vain, neglectful mother, Jean; and the family ghost -- a Victorian poet who haunts the attic.
In a narrative studded with relentless humor and giddy self-deprecation, Julia Darling introduces an endearing cast of characters whose shared and wayward search for love is irresistible.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | July 2, 2002 |
ISBN13 | 9780060090401 |
Publishers | Ecco |
Pages | 352 |
Dimensions | 132 × 21 × 200 mm · 285 g |
Language | English |
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