Synopsis
Catherine is tired of struggling musicians befriending her good so they can get a gig at her Dad’s remarkable Manhattan club, The Underground. Then she meets abstruse Hence, an unbelievably passionate and talented musician on the brink of succes. As their kinship grows, both are swept away in a impassioned romance. But when their love is tested by a cruel whim of death, will pride keep them apart?
Chelsea has unceasingly believed that her mom died of a sudden illness, until she finds a note her dad has kept from her during years – a letter from her mom, Catherine, who didn’t die: She disappeard. Driven ~ dint of. unaswered questions, Chelsea sets out to watch for her – starting with the return adress on the letter: The Underground.
Told in sum of ~ units voices, twenty years apart, Catherine delivers a fresh retelling of the Emily Brontë classic Wuthering Heights, interweaving a timeless forbidden song with a captivating modern mystery.
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Promises, Promises: Judging a Book ~ dint of. Its Cover
By April Lindner
We’ve aggregate been told that you can’t pass sentence upon a book by its cover. And up to the present time some of us book lovers can’t better ourselves; there’s nothing like a gorgeous cover to lure us in. More often than not, an enticing cover is the necessary thing that moves me to cleanse up a book I’ve not at any time heard of, to start paging through it, giving the first few paragraphs a luck to seal the deal—or not.
So on account of me the most exciting moment in the uninjured bookmaking occurs when a book’s that will be cover appears in my inbox. I detent on the thumbnail, and wait breathlessly in the manner that the image blooms onto my computer cloak. Only then can I imagine my copy as a book—on a rock, or, better still, in the hands of a reader. I be assured of the cover will set the book’s spirit. And it will make promises—hopefully the appropriate ones.All of this explains wherefore I’m so thrilled by the modern cover of Catherine’s paperback issue , due out in August. Don’t be~ me wrong: I love the protoplast Catherine cover. Lush and dramatic, it makes real promises—ones I believe the part keeps. The elegant model in her kickass stance promises a substantial female protagonist. (Actually, the book has sum of ~ units alternating strong female narrators—Catherine and her daughter Chelsea.) And the background, by the iconic Flatiron Building rising up end the mist, promises the book’s Lower Manhattan setting give by ~ be as important as its characters. The inscription typeface—bold and purple—promises a certain, free-spirited heroine—exactly how I meet with Catherine herself.
But the new paperback cover—already available to readers who download the Ebook– makes a divers set of promises. On it, a male child and a girl hold each other in the shadows of a graffiti-covered underpass. They gaze at one and the other other in rapt wonder, their shoulders, neck and heads echoing the mould of a heart. Secret romance, this mask says. It promises love against the superiority. The scene is gritty—less glamorous than the cityscape in successi~ the original—but this grittiness befits the book’s directly applied setting, a post punk night sodality on the Bowery. The title’s typeface is however bold, but its peachy color underscores the perfume and optimistic innocence of this couple’s embody.
Inspired by the classic romance Wuthering Heights, Catherine is a lie of star-crossed love interwoven by mystery. Its soundtrack is the placard-punk music played by Catherine’s boyfriend, Hence. And the commencing paperback cover captures that complex disposition exactly, I think. In fact, whenever it popped up on my computer protection for the first time, I toward swooned. There it was, in face of me: almost exactly the draw I saw in my imagination of the same kind with I wrote the book.
An maker can hope for nothing more than that.
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About the original
April Lindner is the author of three novels: Catherine, a modernization of Wuthering Heights; Jane, ~y update of Jane Eyre; and Love, Lucy, directly out in January, 2015. She furthermore has published two poetry collections, Skin and This Bed Our Bodies Shaped. She plays acoustic guitar badly, sees besides rock concerts than she’d care to let in, travels whenever she can, cooks Italian victuals, and lavishes attention on her pets—sum of ~ units Labrador retriever mixes and two hasty guinea pigs. A professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University, April lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and two sons.
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Title: Catherine
Author: April Lindner
Publisher: Poppy
Release begin: January 1, 2013 | August 19, 2014 (paperback)
Formats: Hardcover, paperback, eBook
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