In the Company of Angels

A Novel

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By N. M. Kelby

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Now available in paperback–“To read Kelby’s novel is, in its own words, to ‘fall into a dream, a flying dream.’ To paraphrase and summarize such fine spun fiction must inevitably be as inadequate as any attempt to retell your most amazing dream the morning after.” —New York Times Book Review Scented by chocolate and haunted by war, this compelling novel of dark miracles and angelic visitations offers up a distinctly imaginative new voice in fiction. Marie Claire is a young French Jew in a Nazi-occupied Belgian town, cared for by her grandmother, who cultivates flowers. A shattering of glass, and Marie Claire’s village is in rubble. Her grandmother is dead, everyone is dead. She flees to the root cellar of her grandmother’s house and waits. . . .

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On Sale
Apr 24, 2002
Page Count
164 pages
Publisher
Hachette Books
ISBN-13
9780786885831

N. M. Kelby

About the Author

N. M. Kelby is the winner of a Bush Artist Fellowship in Literature and the Heekin Group Foundation’s James Fellowship for the Novel. Her poems and short stories have appeared in numerous journals, including Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope: All-Story Extra and the Mississippi Review. She divides her time between Sarasota, Florida, and Minnetonka, Minnesota.

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