Object Lessons

QUINDLEN, ANNA

ISBN 10: 0394569652 / ISBN 13: 9780394569659

Editore: Random House, New York, NY, 1991

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First Edition. Her first novel, a coming of age story set in suburban New York City in the 1960s. Quindlen won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992 for her New York Times column. Fine in fine dustjacket.

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• Titolo: Object Lessons
• Editore: Random House, New York, NY
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0394569652
• ISBN 13: 9780394569659
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: 1st Edition
• Condizione: Fine
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Fine

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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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