Calpurnia

By Anne Scott and Anne Scott Beller

An elegant debut novel about a once grand Philadelphia mansion called Calpurnia; its owner, a painter and pa- trician matriarch who has recently died under mysterious circumstances; and the woman... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375413804
• ISBN13: 9780375413803
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Calpurnia is a Pleasurable Read

Readers who enjoy characters with a little depth and prose that doesn't read as if it were computer generated in a marketing department somewhere will be well rewarded by investing a little time between the pages of Ms. Scott's Calpurnia. Calpurnia is not a suspense story and it certainly is not a tennis story. -Ms. Scott will never do color commentary at Wimbleton. However, it is a good yarn that uses a house as a metaphor for changing times and people. Think Howard's End on the Main Line. As the story ended, I was not completely ready to close the doors of Calpurnia; I wanted to linger a bit in the atomosphere and speculate on what happens next for estate agent Elizabeth, ne'er-do-well Coby and Peg the concerned friend and neighbor.