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One True Thing
by Quindlen, Anna
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- ISBN 10
- 067940712X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679407126
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About This Item
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Random House, Incorporated, 1994. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Cherry-red boards quarterbound in black cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Red endpapers. 289pps. There is a touch of sunfading at the extreme top edge of the backstrip, otherwise flawless: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The text is immaculate; no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has a horizontal incision -- very fine and closed -- on the front panel; it is otherwise as new; the original price is intact. SIGNED and inscribed by the author to a previous owner on the second fep.
"...A young woman is in jail, accused of the mercy killing of her mother. She says she didn't do it; she thinks she knows who did. When Ellen Gulden first learns that her mother, Kate, has cancer, the disease is already far advanced. Her father insists that Ellen quit her job and come home to take care of Kate. Ellen has always been the special child in the family, the high achiever, her father's intellectual match, and the person caught in the middle between her parents. She has seen herself as very different from her mother, the talented homemaker, the family's popular center, its one true thing. Yet as Ellen begins to spend her days with Kate, she learns many surprising things, not only about herself but also about her mother, a woman she thought she knew so well. The life choices Ellen and her mother have made are reassessed in this deeply moving novel, a work of fiction that is richly imbued with profound insights into the complex lives of women and men..."
Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Money back guarantee. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. . ISBN: 0-679-40712-X. SIGNED by the Author. First Edition, First Printing. FICTION LEGAL MOTHERS DAUGHTERS ANNA QUINDLEN ONE TRUE THING FIRST EDITIONS AMERICAN LITERATURE FICTION ELLEN GULDEN. Catalogs: Literature, U.S.A..
"...A young woman is in jail, accused of the mercy killing of her mother. She says she didn't do it; she thinks she knows who did. When Ellen Gulden first learns that her mother, Kate, has cancer, the disease is already far advanced. Her father insists that Ellen quit her job and come home to take care of Kate. Ellen has always been the special child in the family, the high achiever, her father's intellectual match, and the person caught in the middle between her parents. She has seen herself as very different from her mother, the talented homemaker, the family's popular center, its one true thing. Yet as Ellen begins to spend her days with Kate, she learns many surprising things, not only about herself but also about her mother, a woman she thought she knew so well. The life choices Ellen and her mother have made are reassessed in this deeply moving novel, a work of fiction that is richly imbued with profound insights into the complex lives of women and men..."
Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Money back guarantee. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. . ISBN: 0-679-40712-X. SIGNED by the Author. First Edition, First Printing. FICTION LEGAL MOTHERS DAUGHTERS ANNA QUINDLEN ONE TRUE THING FIRST EDITIONS AMERICAN LITERATURE FICTION ELLEN GULDEN. Catalogs: Literature, U.S.A..
Synopsis
ANNA QUINDLEN is the author of five novels ( Blessings, Object Lessons, One True Thing, Black and Blue, Rise and Shine ), and six nonfiction books ( Being Perfect, Loud & Clear, A Short Guide to a Happy Life, Living Out Loud, Thinking Out Loud, How Reading Changed My Life ). She has also written two children's books ( The Tree That Came to Stay, Happily Ever After ). Her New York Times column "Public and Private" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. Her column now appears every other week in Newsweek .
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- Title
- One True Thing
- Author
- Quindlen, Anna
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 067940712X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679407126
- Publisher
- Random House, Incorporated
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1994
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