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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Hallgrímur Helgason, 1959- author.     Subjects     Terminally ill -- Fiction.     Older women -- Fiction.     Iceland -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Hallgrímur Helgason, 1959- author.       by title:      Woman at 1,000 degre...         MARC Display

Woman at 1,000 degrees [large type] / Hallgrímur Helgason ; translated by Brian FitzGibbon. by Hallgrímur Helgason, 1959- author. Farmington Hills, Mich : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018. Subjects Terminally ill -- Fiction.   Older women -- Fiction.   Iceland -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781432848880 (large print ; hardcover) 1432848887 (large print ; hardcover) Series:  Thorndike Press large print core series. Description:  657 pages ; 23 cm Edition:  Large print edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "'I live here alone in a garage, together with a laptop computer and an old hand grenade. It's pretty cozy.' Herra Bjornsson is at the beginning of the end of her life. Oh, she has two weeks left, maybe three--she has booked her cremation appointment, at a crispy 1,000 degrees, so it won't be long. But until then she has her cigarettes, a World War II-era weapon, some Facebook friends, and her memories to sustain her. And what a life this remarkable eighty-year-old narrator has led. ... From Herra's childhood in the remote islands of Iceland, where she was born the granddaughter of Iceland's first president, to teen years spent living by her wits alone in war-torn Europe while her father fought on the side of the Nazis, to love affairs on several continents, Herra Bjornsson moved Zelig-like through the major events and locales of the twentieth century. She wed and lost husbands, had children, fled a war, kissed a Beatle, weathered the Icelandic financial crash, and mastered the Internet. She has experienced luck and betrayal and upheaval and pain, and--with a bawdy, uncompromising spirit--she has survived it all. Now, as she awaits death in a garage in Reykjavik, she shows us a woman unbowed by the forces of history. Each part of Herra's story is a poignant piece of a puzzle that comes together in the final pages of this remarkable, unpredictable, and enthralling novel."--Dust jacket.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Library For The Blind and Print Disabled Large Type LT Hallgrimur Helgason Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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