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With this exquisite novel, Wieland (A Watch of Nightingales) offers a beautifully realized tribute to distinguished American poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911–79), tracing her coming of age as a writer and a young woman living in a man's world right before World War II. The bulk of the story is set in Paris in 1937 and 1938, immediately after Bishop graduated from Vassar. She has traveled there with her college roommates, looking for adventure yet finding ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More