New York: Random House Inc, 2001 269pp. Signed by author on title page. Front board has a small warp. Tips and spine ends are rubbed. Spine has a slight roll. Spine ends are bumped. Rear board has a small stain. Rear board has a small surface tear at the lower tip. "Autographed Copy" Sticker on front panel of jacket. Front panel has sticker residue. Rear panel has light smudging and small stains. Top tip of front flap fold has small creases. Text is clean and unmarked. 0679463127. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Minus/Very Good Jacket.

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With her trademark humor and warmth, the beloved author of The Ladies' Man and The Inn at Lake Devine explores going home again; about finding light in the dark corners of one's inhospitable past; about love, golf, and DNA. Everyone in King George, New Hampshire, loved Margaret Batten, part-time amateur actress, full-time wallflower, and single mother to a now-distant daughter, Sunny. But accidents happen. The death of Margaret, side by side with her putative fiance, brings Sunny back to the scene of the unhappy adolescence she thought she'd left behind. Reentry is to be dreaded; there's no hiding in a town with one diner, one doctor, one stop sign, one motel. Yet allies surface; even high school tormentors have grown up in unforeseen and gratifying ways. Just possibly, Sunny begins to think, she wasn't as beleaguered as she felt she was. And maybe her mother's life was richer than anyone suspected. Add to the mix a chief of police whose interest in Sunny exceeds his civic duty, and you have the makings of an irresistibly beguiling tale from an author who writes with all the wit and wry authority of a latter-day Jane Austen.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Bookseller: Recycled Records and Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 25517
Title: The Dearly Departed
Author: Lipman, Elinor
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good Minus
Jacket Condition: Very Good Jacket
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0679463127
ISBN 13: 9780679463122
Publisher: Random House Inc
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2001
Bookseller catalogs: Autographed, Signed: Fiction;

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