Synopsis
Catherine is tired of struggling musicians befriending her just so they can get a gig at her Dad's famous Manhattan club, The Underground. Then she meets mysterious Hence, an unbelievably passionate and talented musician on the brink of succes. As their relationship grows, both are swept away in a fiery romance. But when their love is tested by a cruel whim of fate, will pride keep them apart?
Chelsea has always believed that her mom died of a sudden illness, until she finds a letter her dad has kept from her for years - a letter from her mom, Catherine, who didn't die: She disappeard. Driven by unaswered questions, Chelsea sets out to look for her - starting with the return adress on the letter: The Underground.
Told in two voices, twenty years apart, Catherine delivers a fresh retelling of the Emily Brontë classic Wuthering Heights, interweaving a timeless forbidden romance with a captivating modern mystery.
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Promises,
Promises: Judging a Book by Its Cover
By April Lindner
We’ve all been told that you can’t judge a
book by its cover. And yet some of us book lovers can’t help ourselves; there’s
nothing like a gorgeous cover to lure us in. More often than not, an enticing
cover is the main thing that moves me to pick up a book I’ve never heard of, to
start paging through it, giving the first few paragraphs a chance to seal the
deal—or not.
So for me the most exciting moment in the
whole bookmaking occurs when a book’s future cover appears in my inbox. I click
on the thumbnail, and wait breathlessly as the image blooms onto my computer
screen. Only then can I imagine my manuscript as a book—on a shelf, or, better
still, in the hands of a reader. I know the cover will set the book’s tone. And
it will make promises—hopefully the right ones.
But the new paperback cover—already
available to readers who download the Ebook-- makes a different set of
promises. On it, a boy and a girl hold each other in the shadows of a
graffiti-covered underpass. They gaze at each other in rapt wonder, their
shoulders, neck and heads echoing the shape of a heart. Secret romance, this cover says. It promises love against the odds.
The scene is gritty—less glamorous than the cityscape on the original—but this
grittiness befits the book’s main setting, a post punk night club on the
Bowery. The title’s typeface is still bold, but its peachy color underscores
the sweet and optimistic innocence of this couple’s embrace.
Inspired by the classic romance Wuthering Heights, Catherine is a story of star-crossed love interwoven with mystery.
Its soundtrack is the post-punk music played by Catherine’s boyfriend, Hence.
And the new paperback cover captures that complex mood exactly, I think. In
fact, when it popped up on my computer screen for the first time, I almost
swooned. There it was, in front of me: almost exactly the picture I saw in my
imagination as I wrote the book.
An author can hope for nothing more than
that.
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About the author
April Lindner is the author of three
novels: Catherine, a modernization of Wuthering Heights; Jane,
an update of Jane Eyre; and Love, Lucy, due out in January,
2015. She also has published two poetry collections, Skin and This
Bed Our Bodies Shaped. She plays acoustic guitar badly, sees more rock
concerts than she’d care to admit, travels whenever she can, cooks Italian
food, and lavishes attention on her pets—two Labrador retriever mixes and two
excitable guinea pigs. A professor of English at Saint Joseph’s
University, April lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and two sons.Extra
Title: Catherine
Author: April Lindner
Publisher: Poppy
Release date: January 1, 2013 | August 19,
2014 (paperback)
Formats: Hardcover, paperback, eBookLinks:
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