Crooked Little Heart: A novel - Rilegato

Lamott, Anne

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ISBN 10: 0679435212 ISBN 13: 9780679435211

Casa editrice: Pantheon, 1997

Riassunto

A close-knit family from Marin County, California, the Fergusons struggle to cope with the trials and tribulations of life, while thirteen-year-old Rosie, obsessed with becoming a tennis champion, embarks on a desperate cycle of cheating. 60,000 first printing. Tour.

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L'autore:

Anne Lamott is the author of four previous novels, as well as Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird.  She lives in Northern California with her son, Sam.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

e brilliant combination of humor and warmth that marked Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, her two bestselling works of nonfiction, Anne Lamott now gives us an exuberant richly absorbing portrait of a family for whom the joys and sorrows of everyday life are magnified under the glare of the unexpected.

The Fergusons make their home in a small California town where life is supposed to resemble paradise, but for thirteen-year-old Rosie (last seen in Lamott's beloved novel Rosie), reality is a bit harsher.  Her mother, a recovering alcoholic, is still beset by grief over the early death of her first husband.  Rosie's stepfather is a struggling writer plagued by doubts and hilarious paranoia. And Rosie, aching in the bloom of young womanhood and obsessed with tournament tennis, finds that her athletic gifts, initially a source of triumph, now place her in peril, as a shadowy man who stalks her from the bleachers seems to be deve

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• Editore: Pantheon
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679435212
• ISBN 13: 9780679435211
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 324