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Adult Onset Hardcover - 2014

by Macdonald, Ann-Marie

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Toronto. ON: Knopf Canada, 2014. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. SIGNED BY ANN-MARIE MACDONALD on title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; MR or "Mister" is a successful author who has opted to put aside her career in her 40s and devote herself to her young family. Over the course of one outwardly ordinary week, Mister's world threatens to unravel, as the spectre of violence raises its head with dangerous implications for her and her children. Crafted with humour and unerring emotional accuracy, Adult Onset is a contemporary tale by turns searing and uplifting.
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  • Title Adult Onset
  • Author Macdonald, Ann-Marie
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Canada, Toronto. ON
  • Date 2014
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 004867
  • ISBN 9780345808271 / 0345808274
  • Library of Congress subjects Women, Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014472862
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54

From the publisher

ANN-MARIE MACDONALD is a bestselling, award-winning novelist, playwright, actor and broadcaster. Her works include Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Fall On Your Knees and The Way the Crow Flies. She lives in Toronto with her partner and their 2 children.

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Media reviews

Praise for The Way the Crow Flies:
"Remarkable...an engrossing, disturbing and layered tale." Chicago Tribune
"One of the finest novels I've read in a long, long time." The Washington Post
"[MacDonald's] prose...is always right and true, clean and penetrating." Winnipeg Free Press
"MacDonald is a stunningly good writer.... The Way the Crow Flies...secures for MacDonald a place, forever, in Canadian literature." Calgary Herald

About the author

Ann-Marie MacDonald is an author, actor, playwright and broadcaster. She trained as an actor at the National Theatre School of Canada and has appeared in numerous independent Canadian films. She earned a Genie nomination for her role in I ve Heard the Mermaids Singing, and won a Gemini Award for Where the Spirit Lives. She has performed in theatres across Canada, recently appearing in the Mirvish Production of Top Girls.
Her first solo-authored play, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) won the Chalmers Award, the Governor General s Award, and the Canadian Authors Association Award. Her other works for the stage include the libretto for the chamber opera Nigredo Hotel, book and lyrics for the musical Anything that Moves (which garnered several Dora Awards, including Outstanding New Musical), and Belle Moral: A Natural History.
Ann-Marie s first novel, Fall on Your Knees (1996), was a critically acclaimed international bestseller. It won the Commonwealth Prize, was short-listed for the Giller Prize, and won the People s Choice Award and the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year. In 2002 it became an Oprah s Book Club selection. It has been translated into 19 languages. Her second novel, The Way the Crow Flies (2003), was an international bestseller, a finalist for the Giller Prize, and a Good Morning America Book Club pick. It has been translated into 13 languages.
Her much anticipated new novel, ADULT ONSET, will be published on October 4, 2014.
Ann-Marie is presently host and narrator of CBC s Doc Zone. She lives in Toronto with her partner and their two children.

www.annmariemacdonald.com

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