Nina de Gramont
Författare till The Christie Affair
Om författaren
Nina De Gramont teaches fiction at the Harvard Extension School. She lives on Cape Cod with her husband, the writer David Gessner. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Verk av Nina de Gramont
Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, and Abortion (2007) — Bidragsgivare; Redaktör — 92 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Land (för karta)
- USA
- Födelseort
- Englewood, New Jersey, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA
Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, USA - Utbildning
- Colorado College
University of North Carolina Wilmington (MFA) - Yrken
- teacher (fiction ∙ Harvard Extension School)
fiction editor (Ecotone ∙ UNCW's literary magazine)
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Wilmington - Relationer
- Gessner, David (husband)
- Agent
- Peter Steinberg, Shari Smiley
- Kort biografi
- Nina de Gramont lives with her husband, nature writer David Gessner, and daughter in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.
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Statistik
- Verk
- 8
- Medlemmar
- 1,627
- Popularitet
- #15,814
- Betyg
- 3.7
- Recensioner
- 143
- ISBN
- 62
- Språk
- 6
In London, a renowned mystery author goes missing for 11 days in December 1926 after an argument with her unfaithful husband, Archibald Christie. This novel is the author's envisioning of the mysterious unresolved event. The story is narrated in the first person who happens to be Nan but alternating timelines from her youth to where she is now, blatantly flaunting herself in the Christie home as an assistance to Archie. His dalliances were not exactly a well-kept secret so when he told her he was spending the weekend away, Agatha had no disillusions that he would be with Miss Nan O'Dea.
Mrs. Christie's disappearance remains up to debate as to what occurred although she was eventually "found" at a day spa hotel not too far from home. The rumors ranged from her having dementia, amnesia, pulling a publicity stunt to wanting to harm herself. The ribbon which ties the story together in this case is Nan O'Dea and how she came to be in the circle of the elite. Her background is filled with as much mystique and mystery as those of the Christie's. It is obvious that Nan both admired and loathed Agatha for her success and marriage to Archie.
"Agatha Christie had a fascination with murder. But she was tenderhearted. She never wanted to kill anyone. Not for a moment. Not even me."
This is Nan's story of ambition and desire to climb over other people in order to obtain her rags to riches ending.… (mer)