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Do Not Become Alarmed: A Novel

Do Not Become Alarmed: A Novel

Do Not Become Alarmed: A Novel
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Do Not Become Alarmed: A Novel Hardback - 2017

by Meloy, Maile

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Riverhead Books, 2017-06-06. Hardcover. Good. 100x19x148.
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  • Title Do Not Become Alarmed: A Novel
  • Author Meloy, Maile
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Riverhead Books, New York
  • Publication date 2017-06-06
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0735216525-3-18944789
  • ISBN 9780735216525 / 0735216525
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.5 in (23.11 x 14.99 x 3.81 cm)
  • Size 100x19x148
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Missing persons, Parent and child
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2016051263
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.6
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

The moving and suspenseful new novel that Ann Patchett calls "smart and thrilling and impossible to put down... the book that every reader longs for."

"This summer's undoubtable smash hit... an addictive, heart-palpitating story." --Marie Claire

The sun is shining, the sea is blue, the children have disappeared.

When Liv and Nora decide to take their husbands and children on a holiday cruise, everyone is thrilled. The adults are lulled by the ship's comfort and ease. The four children--ages six to eleven--love the nonstop buffet and their newfound independence. But when they all go ashore for an adventure in Central America, a series of minor misfortunes and miscalculations leads the families farther from the safety of the ship. One minute the children are there, and the next they're gone.

The disintegration of the world the families knew--told from the perspectives of both the adults and the children--is both riveting and revealing. The parents, accustomed to security and control, turn on each other and blame themselves, while the seemingly helpless children discover resources they never knew they possessed.

Do Not Become Alarmed is a story about the protective force of innocence and the limits of parental power, and an insightful look at privileged illusions of safety. Celebrated for her spare and moving fiction, Maile Meloy has written a gripping novel about how quickly what we count on can fall away, and the way a crisis shifts our perceptions of what matters most.

About the author

Maile Meloy is the author of the novels Liars and Saints and A Family Daughter, the short-story collections Half in Love and Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (named one of the 10 Best Books of 2009 by The New York Times Book Review), and a bestselling middle-grade trilogy. Her fiction has won the Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, and the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Meloy was shortlisted for the UK's Orange Prize and chosen as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists.

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