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03072aam a22005538i 4500 001 0E1FFABA902811EAAF12331197128E48 003 SILO 005 20200507010018 008 190427s2020 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2019019769 020 $a 1250246288 020 $a 9781250246288 035 $a (OCoLC)1099206240 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d TP7 $d OCLCF $d TCH $d VCQ $d LNC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3616.O45 $b U57 2020 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Pohlig, Molly, $e author. 245 14 $a The unsuitable : $b a novel / $c Molly Pohlig. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Henry Holt and Company, $c 2020. 300 $a 271 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a Molly Pohlig's The Unsuitable is a fierce blend of Gothic ghost story and Victorian novel of manners that's also pitch perfect for our current cultural moment. Iseult Wince is a Victorian woman perilously close to spinsterhood whose distinctly unpleasant father is trying to marry her off. She is awkward, plain, and most pertinently, believes that her mother, who died in childbirth, lives in the scar on her neck. Iseult's father parades a host of unsuitable candidates before her, the majority of whom Iseult wastes no time frightening away. When at last her father finds a suitor desperate enough to take Iseult off his hands -- a man whose medical treatments have turned his skin silver -- a true comedy of errors ensues. As history's least conventional courtship progresses into talk of marriage, Iseult's mother becomes increasingly volatile and uncontrollable, and Iseult is forced to resort to extreme, often violent, measures to keep her in check. As the day of the wedding nears, Iseult must decide whether (and how) to set the course of her life, with increasing interference from both her mother and father, tipping her ever closer to madness, and to an inevitable, devastating final act. 650 0 $a Courtship $v Fiction. 650 7 $a FICTION / Gothic. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / Romance / Historical / Victorian. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / Women. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Courtship. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00881873 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Gothic fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921675 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726640 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Gothic fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Ghost stories. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Gothic fiction. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd 941 $a 10 952 $l GYPE631 $d 20220405022946.0 952 $l WAPD715 $d 20210924020103.0 952 $l GHPD771 $d 20210713010321.0 952 $l D8PD522 $d 20210428011552.0 952 $l VCPD034 $d 20210201120743.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20201215011617.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20200911010220.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20200602014310.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20200602012241.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20200507010738.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0E1FFABA902811EAAF12331197128E48 994 $a Z0 $b LJWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search