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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Titel

Object Lessons

Verlag

Random House, New York

Ver�ffentlichungsdatum

1991

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

0394569652

ISBN-13

9780394569659

Bindung

Hardcover

Ausgabe

1. Auflage

Zustand des Schutzumschlags

Schutzumschlag

Signiert

Signatur des Verfassers

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During a pivotal summer, young Maggie Scanlan struggles to deal with the realities of the adult world as she wrestles with the approaching death of her grandfather, parental conflict, and the other trials of her Irish-Italian family

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IMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
"Elaborate and playful...Honest and deeply felt....Here is the Quindlen wit, the sharp eye for the details of class and manners, [and] the ardent reading of domestic lives."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
It is the 1960s, in suburban New York City. Maggie and her family, are in the thrall of her powerful grandfather Jack Scanlan. In the summer of her twelfth year, Maggie is despertately trying to master the object lessons her grandfather fills her head with. But there is too much going on to concentrate. Everything at home is in upheaval, her grandfather is changing, and Maggie is unsure if what she wants is worth having....

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