Small 4to. Green cloth spine and green flecked paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 262pp. Decorative endpapers. Very good/near fine. Nonauthorial gift inscription opposite title page; abrasion at upper corner of inner flyleaf. First edition, tight and nice, handsomely inscribed and signed by the author in black fineline on inner flyleaf: "For Mary Anne -- / Best -- / Anna Quindlen.".

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Titre

Object Lessons

�diteur

Random House, New York

Date de parution

1991

Langue

anglais

ISBN � 10 chiffres

0394569652

ISBN � 13 chiffres

9780394569659

Reliure

Hardcover

�dition

Edition originale

�tat de la jaquette

Jaquette

Sign�

Sign� par l'auteur

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Book by Quindlen Anna

Quatri�me de couverture

It is the 1960s, in suburban New York City and twelve-year-old Maggie Scanlan begins to sense that despite the calm normality of her family everything is about to go horribly wrong...

When her all-powerful grandfather is struck down by a stroke Maggie is astonished to see her dispassionate father breakdown. Connie, her beautiful mother, is equally changed, becoming distant and unavailable. Matters only get worse when her cousin and her best friend start doing things to each other that leave Maggie confused about sex and terrified of sin.

With her life in turmoil Maggie must find a new normal before she loses herself completely.'An intelligent, highly entertaining novel laced with acute perceptions about the nature of day-to-day family life' Anne Tyler, New York Times Book Review

'Quindlen is at her best writing about the dislocations of growing up, the blows a child does not see coming' Time

'The characters are quirky and vividly drawn... The writing is lovely, and shows humour and quiet insight... Quindlen is an intelligent and imaginative writer' The Boston Globe

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