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Title After Anne : a novel of Lucy Maud Montgomery's life / Logan Steiner.
Author Steiner, Logan, author.
Publication Info. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023.
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Copies/Volumes
Location Call No. Status
 Fairview Shores  FIC STE    Checked Out
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Library Central  FIC STE    Check Shelves
 Southwest  FIC STE    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description 356 pages ; 21 cm
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unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Fiction marcgt
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 352).
Summary "As a young woman, Maud had dreams bigger than the whole of Prince Edward Island. Her exuberant spirit had always drawn frowns from her grandmother and their neighbors, but she knew she was meant to create, to capture and share the way she saw the world. And the young girl in Maud's mind became more and more persistent: Here is my story, she said. Here is how my name should be spelled--Anne with an "e." But the day Maud writes the first lines of Anne of Green Gables, she gets a visit from the handsome new minister in town, and soon faces a decision: forge her own path as a spinster authoress, or live as a rural minister's wife, an existence she once called "a synonym for respectable slavery." The choice she makes alters the course of her life. With a husband whose religious mania threatens their health and happiness at every turn, the secret darkness that Maud herself holds inside threatens to break through the persona she shows to the world, driving an ever-widening wedge between her public face and private self, and putting her on a path towards a heartbreaking end. Beautiful and moving, After Anne reveals Maud's hidden personal challenges while celebrating what was timeless about her life and art--the importance of tenacity and the peaceful refuge found in imagination."-- Provided by publisher
Subject Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942 -- Fiction.
Authors, Canadian -- Fiction.
Genre Biographical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
ISBN 9780063246454 (pbk.) : $18.99
0063246457 (pbk.)