Now available in paperback!
THE ROSE VARIATIONS
by Marisha Chamberlain
Soho Press
distributed by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
www.sohopress.com / www.cbsd.com
ISBN: 978-1-56947-618-5
$14.00 Trade Paperback
January 31, 2010
ISBN 978-1-56947-538-6
$24.00 Hardcover
February 2009
Contemporary fiction set in Minnesota in 1970s / Women’s lives
THE ROSE VARIATIONS is also an Indie Next List selection for February 2009.
MBA Bookseller Information
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About the Book
“Like its heroine, this novel is thoroughly likable. . . . Chamberlain’s creation of a character real, rich, and sympathetic enough to merit our interest and, even, to earn our advocacy. And that is a success on a scale that any musical, or literary, prodigy might hope for.”
– Minneapolis Star-Tribune, February 2, 2009
“Rose MacGregor is my kind of heroine-funny and serious, dreamy but brutally practical when it’s called for; someone blissfully inconsistent-like the rest of us.”
- Judith Guest, author of Ordinary People“It’d be hard to find a more contemporary view of the sexual dilemma, but I couldn’t help thinking how much Shakespeare, Mozart, and Jane Austen would have savored this novel.”
- David Huddle, author of La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl“THE ROSE VARIATIONS is one of those rare novels that captures the complexity of a life lived over time, and does so in beautiful, eloquent prose. A brilliant debut.”
- Margot Livesey, author of The House of Fortune Street
THE ROSE VARIATIONS is the story of twenty-five-year-old Rose MacGregor who, in 1975, moves from Philadelphia to St. Paul, Minnesota, where she knows no one and has nothing but a few books, her cello and a temporary professorship at a Midwestern college. She is convinced nevertheless that an exciting future as a composer lies ahead of her. Determined to remain independent and not to let any romantic relationships tie her down, she struggles to figure out what exactly would make her happy, getting mixed up along the way with many short-lived love affairs, a bearded lesbian cellist, and her wayward pregnant younger sister.
This novel will inspire both heated discussions and nods – and groans! – of recognition among women in their 20s and older, who will feel an immediate bond with Rose and her tangle of misguided choices, confused emotions, and ardor.
MARISHA CHAMBERLAIN is a playwright, poet, fiction writer, essayist, and screenwriter. Her work has won the CBS/Dramatists Guild National Award and Best of American Public Television at the British Film Institute and appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. Her book of poems, Powers, won a Minnesota Voices Award. She lives in Hastings, Minnesota. This is her first novel.
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