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The Effect of Living Backwards
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The Effect of Living Backwards Paperback - 2004

by Julavits, Heidi

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Alice and Edith are sisters, soul mates, and archenemies. Both are expert manipulators--a power that is tested and exploited when their plane is hijacked. "The Effect of Living Backwards" is a comic, heartbreaking novel for this new and uncertain age.

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  • Title The Effect of Living Backwards
  • Author Julavits, Heidi
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Printing
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
  • Date 2004-09-07
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 531835-6
  • ISBN 9780425198179 / 0425198170
  • Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.04 x 5.2 x 0.99 in (20.42 x 13.21 x 2.51 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Identity (Psychology), Sisters
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

Does Alice really hate her sister, or is that love? Was she really enrolled in grad school, or was that an elaborate hoax? Is this really a hijacking, or is it merely the effect of living backwards?

Following her acclaimed debut, The Mineral Palace, Heidi Julavits presents a quirky, compelling new novel about two sisters, a bizarre event, and the elusive nature of truth.

From the publisher

Heidi Julavits has published short fiction in Esquire, Story, Zoetrope, McSweeney’s, and The Best American Short Stories 1999. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Citations

  • New York Times, 10/17/2004, Page 26

About the author

Heidi Julavits is the author of four critically acclaimed novels (The Vanishers, The Uses of Enchantment, The Effect of Living Backwards, and The Mineral Palace) and co-editor, with Sheila Heti and Leanne Shapton, of the New York Times bestseller Women in Clothes. Her fiction has appeared in Harper's Magazine, McSweeney's, and The Best American Short Stories, among other places.

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