Crocodile Soup
Julia Darling
Gert Hardcastle is thirty-something and unlucky in love. She is also estranged from her mother. As Crocodile Soup opens, she thinks she has found ‘the One’ — the enigmatic Eva, who serves coffee at the cafeteria in the museum where Gert works as a curator cataloging Egyptian artifacts. As Gert embarks on her hilarious and poignant pursuit of Eva, she looks back on her eccentric, childhood through a series of vivid and surreal flashbacks: her obsessive twin, Frank, with whom she communicates telepathically; her father, George, who vanished to Africa to salvage the family crocodile farm; her vain, neglectful mother, Jean; and the family ghost — a Victorian poet who haunts the attic.In a narrative studded with relentless humor and giddy self-deprecation, Julia Darling introduces an endearing cast of characters whose shared and wayward search for love is irresistible.
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Details
| ISBN | 9780060090401 |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Publication Date | 01-Jul-02 |
| Publisher | Ecco |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 352 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| Subject | Fiction / General; FICTION / Lesbian; Lesbians; Mothers And Daughters; Women Museum Curators |
| BookID | 2539 |
