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The Drowning Season Mass market paperback - 1986

by Hoffman, Alice

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  • Paperback

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Fawcett Crest Books / Ballantine, 1986. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Moderate scuffing to covers, though smooth. Slight spine crease. Tight. Square. Clean inside with age-toning to paper.. 0 Fiction: 3 generations on Long Island--Esther the White is a Russian immigrant and a cold family matriarch; her only son Phillip poises each summer for the overpowering lure of the ocean, perhaps this time to drown; his daughter esther the Black, 18, aches to escape her grandmother's frozen world. Reviewed as "magical", "hypnotic", "timeless".
Used - Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Moderate scuffing to covers, though smooth. Slight spine crease. Tight. Square. Clean insid
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  • Title The Drowning Season
  • Author Hoffman, Alice
  • Binding Mass-market paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Condition Used - Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Moderate scuffing to covers, though smooth. Slight spine crease. Tight. Square. Clean insid
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Fawcett Crest Books / Ballantine, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1986
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Alibris.0006663
  • ISBN 9780449210246 / 0449210243
  • Weight 0.28 lbs (0.13 kg)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00000000
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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ONCE, when Esther the Black was eighteen, she sat on the porch of her grandmother's house and dragged her feet in the dust until her toes were coated and dark.

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