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Zorrie : a novel / Laird Hunt.

Hunt, Laird, (author.).

Summary:

After losing both her parents and her aunt, Zorrie is cast into the perilous realities of rural Depression-era Indiana. Drifting west, surviving on odd jobs, Zorrie finds a position at a radium processing plant. When Indiana calls Zorrie home, she finds the love and community that has always eluded her in and around the small town of Hillisburg, but discovers that her trials have only begun. -- adapted from jacket

Record details

  • ISBN: 1635575370
  • ISBN: 9781635575378
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (97 pages)
  • Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2021.

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General Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
Subject: Orphans > Fiction.
Young women > Indiana > Fiction.
City and town life > Indiana > Fiction.
Radium processing plants > Fiction.
Indiana > Fiction.
United States > History > 20th century > Fiction.
City and town life.
Orphans.
Radium processing plants.
Young women.
Indiana.
United States.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Fiction.
History.
Historical fiction.

Laird Hunt is the author of eight novels, a collection of stories, and two book-length translations from the French. He has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and won the Anisfield­-Wolf Award for Fiction, the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine, and Italy's Bridge prize. His reviews and essays have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and many others. He teaches in the Department of Literary Arts at Brown University and lives in Providence.


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