{"product_id":"ghost-trio-paperback","title":"Ghost Trio - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhyllis Irwin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLillian Faderman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA grieving pianist visits the site of her true love's death hoping to find answers that will help her to move on, but what she finds leaves her with more questions than answers.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLee Howe, a professional pianist, comes to Southern California from New York on a mournful mission: She believes that if she can see the site where her beloved Devorah met her death, she will begin to accept that she must move on with her own life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDevorah Manikian had been rehearsing for a starring role in Carmen and was living in Eggerscliffe, a 1920s-style pseudo-castle belonging to the wealthy and eccentric impresario, Annajean Eggers. Devorah was gone only a few weeks before Lee was notified that she was dead--tragically killed in a tower fire at Eggerscliffe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut as Lee stands alone on a deserted patch of beach just below the castle, she hears Devorah singing. Is it the cocktail of tranquilizers, sleeping pills, anti-depressants, and anti-anxiety drugs Lee has been taking since learning of Devorah's death that makes her hallucinate her beloved's voice--or is Devorah being kept a prisoner somewhere in Eggerscliffe?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhyllis Irwin\u003c\/strong\u003e, a nonagenarian mystery writer, and musician teamed up with her spouse \u003cstrong\u003eLillian Faderman\u003c\/strong\u003e (often called the \"mother of lesbian history\") to write \u003cem\u003eGhost Trio\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis novel has been revised and updated from the Bold Strokes Books edition originally published in April 2013 under the \u003cem\u003enom de plume\u003c\/em\u003e of Lillian Q. Irwin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePHYLLIS IRWIN\u003c\/strong\u003e, a professor of music emerita, is the author of two college music textbooks and the co-author of a music education textbook. (As a teenager, she wrote short adventure stories in which she flew an airplane to rescue beautiful damsels in distress--never published of course.) At 93, she is still performing publicly as a pianist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLILLIAN FADERMAN\u003c\/strong\u003e, the Mother of Lesbian History has published notable books such as \u003cem\u003eSurpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America, \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America--A History\u003c\/em\u003e. Her memoir, \u003cem\u003eNaked in the Promised Land\u003c\/em\u003e, was reissued by Bloomsbury in 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhyllis\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eLillian\u003c\/strong\u003e have been together for more than fifty years, though they were married in 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 276\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 05, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47266041987321,"sku":"9781612942292","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/1BY3rYIJDH9781612942292.webp?v=1768847444","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/ghost-trio-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}