Providence by Brookner, Anita

Light shelfwear to edges and covers. Laminated with clear plastic. Pages tight and clean. Library discard with usual attachments and marks. Pocket removed. 183 pages. SoftCover Binding. Year: 1994. ISBN: 0679738142. Kitty Maule longs to be ""totally unreasonable, totally unfair, very demanding, and very beautiful."" She is instead clever, reticent, self-possessed, and striking. For years, Kitty has been tactfully courting her colleague Maurice Bishop, a detached, elegant English professor. Now, running out of patience, Kitty's amorous pursuit takes her from rancorous academic committee rooms and lecture halls to French cathedrals and Parisian rooming houses, from sittings with her dress-making grandmother to s?ances with a grandmotherly psychic.