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HOW TO BE LOST.
by Ward, Amanda Eyre
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Fine in printed red wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
- Seller
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About This Item
Denver:: McAdam / Cage, , (2004). First edition -. Fine in printed red wrappers. An uncommon advance issue. . Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. ) The author's highly praised second novel - The seemingly perfect lives of the affluent Winters family in suburban New York begin to unravel when their five-year-old daughter, Ellie, mysteriously vanishes. 15 years later, Caroline, Ellie's older sister, working as a cocktail waitress in New Orleans, sees a photograph in People magazine, and convinced it is her sister, now grown, embarks for a search for her - through the New Mexico desert, the Colorado mountains, Montana and more. Andrew Sean Greer commented that Ward "shines her with the same brilliance and humor she showed in her first novel." 291 pp.
Synopsis
From the author of the celebrated Sleep Toward Heaven comes a novel of love and secrets. To their neighbors in suburban Holt, New York, the Winters family has it all: a grand home, a trio of radiant daughters, and a sense that they are safe in their affluent corner of America. But when five-year-old Ellie disappears, the fault lines within the Winters family are exposed. Joseph, once a successful businessman, succumbs to his demons. Isabelle retreats into memories of her debutante days in Savannah, Georgia. And Ellie's bereft sisters grow apart: Madeline reluctantly stays home, while Caroline runs away. Fifteen years later, Caroline, now a New Orleans cocktail waitress, sees a photograph of a woman in People Magazine. Convinced that it is Ellie all grown up, Caroline embarks on a search for her missing sister, armed with Xerox copies of the photograph, an amateur detective guide, and a cooler of Dixie beer. As Caroline travels through the New Mexico desert, the mountains of Colorado, and the smoky underworld of Montana, she devotes herself to salvaging her broken family. With dark humor and gorgeous prose, Amanda Eyre Ward brings us a spellbinding novel about the stories we are given, and the stories we embrace."
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- Bookfever.com, IOBA
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 88800
- Title
- HOW TO BE LOST.
- Author
- Ward, Amanda Eyre
- Format/Binding
- First edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in printed red wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
- Publisher
- McAdam / Cage,
- Place of Publication
- Denver:
- Date Published
- (2004)
- Keywords
- arc, advance reading copy,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Women Authors;
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