Chapters-Indigo Online Bookstore, Chums Direct, Boots Chemist, John Lewis, Burton UK, Oxendales, JD Williams Chapters, Canada . Buy Now Pay Later With Interest Free Credit | Asda Direct Spelling Mississippi - Autographed Copy Author: Marnie Woodrow Hardcover Temporarily Unavailable to Order The vendor has indicated there is currently no stock of this title . Please select another item. Our Price: $32.95 You could save $3.30 (10%) with our iREWARDS Program Edition Details : Autographed Edition | ISBN: 0999290479 Published: March 2002 | From the Publisher From an acclaimed short-story writer, a blazingly intelligent and humorous debut novel that is set in New Orleans and tells the story of two strangers whose paths first cross on the remarkable banks of the Mississippi. Cleo, a Canadian on holiday in New Orleans, is sitting alone in the French Quarter late one night, dreamily watching the river’s lazy progress. Suddenly, a woman clad in full evening dress, from rhinestone tiara to high heels, takes a running leap off the wharf into the Mississippi. Cleo watches, astonished, then turns and runs, mistakenly assuming the jumper is dead — a suicide. But Madeline, it turns out, is not bent on suicide. She is irresistibly drawn to water, as is Cleo, who was conceived during the great flood in Florence in 1966. Perhaps it is this shared obsession with the murky depths that fuels Cleo’s determination to find Madeline. She pounds the quaint streets of New Orleans, city of cheap bourbon, rich turtle soup, the scent of magnolias and A Streetcar Named Desire . Spelling Mississippi is filled with all the bristling energy of Fall on Your Knees . Told with great humour and affection, it is a seductive, liberating story about ties that bind and those that simply restrain, and a lesson not in spelling but forgiveness. About the Author Marnie Woodrow is a former bookseller and the author of two acclaimed collections of short fiction, In the Spice House and Why We Close Our Eyes When We Kiss — both praised for their richness of detail, authenticity and passion. Spelling Mississippi will be published in the UK by Transworld/Black Swan in November, 2002. Marnie Woodrow lives in Toronto. Review Quotes “ Spelling Mississippi is charged with the eccentric energies of its characters and its New Orleans setting. A love story that is tender, but also witty, sexy and highly intoxicating.” — Timothy Taylor, author of Stanley Park "A smart, sexy, moving jazz riff of a novel." — Emma Donoghue, author of Slammerkin "In this bourbon-soaked barnburner of a tale, the Mississippi River becomes the catalyst for one woman’s midnight swim and another’s plunge into obsession. The setting is a New Orleans stocked with star-crossed lovers, barflies, thwarted dreams and mother-daughter showdowns. [ Spelling Mississippi ] plays with notions of fate and inevitability in the characters’ lives, themes that fit nicely with New Orleans’ reputation for romance and magic.... The novel is, at its root, about people overcoming their tangled, traumatic histories to authentically find one another." — Quill & Quire Info Desk iREWARDS Program About Our Company Affiliate Opportunities Careers Contact Us Corporate Sales Gift Certificates Privacy Policy Shipping Rates Store Locations Wish List chapters.indigo.ca: books Shopping Bag | Account Centre | Wish List | Help iREWARDS Program | Corporate Sales | Store Locations All Products Books DVD Video Gifts Books Advanced Search Search Tips About this Book From the Publisher About the Author Review Quotes Browse Books Art and Architecture Audiobooks Biography & Memoir Business and Finance Children's Books Computers Entertainment Family and Relationships Fiction and Literature Food and Drink Health and Well Being History Home and Garden Mystery and Suspense Reference and Language Religion and Spirituality Romance Science and Nature Science Fiction and Fantasy Social and Cultural Studies Sports Travel Coles Notes . Head Office | Privacy Policy | Free Delivery | Chapters Coupons