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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves: A Novel Paperback - 2014
by Fowler, Karen Joy
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- Title We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves: A Novel
- Author Fowler, Karen Joy
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York
- Date 2/25/2014 12:00:01 A
- Features Price on Product - Canadian
- Bookseller's Inventory # mon0003282738
- ISBN 9780142180822 / 0142180823
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.7 in (20.07 x 13.46 x 1.78 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Psychological fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
The New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club introduces a middle-class American family, ordinary in every way but one
Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. I was raised with a chimpanzee,” she explains. I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren’t thinking of her as my sister. But until Fern’s expulsion she was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half and I loved her as a sister.” As a child, Rosemary never stopped talking. Then, something happened, and Rosemary wrapped herself in silence.
In We Are All Completely beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler weaves her most accomplished work to datea tale of loving but fallible people whose well-intentioned actions lead to heartbreaking consequences.
Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. I was raised with a chimpanzee,” she explains. I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren’t thinking of her as my sister. But until Fern’s expulsion she was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half and I loved her as a sister.” As a child, Rosemary never stopped talking. Then, something happened, and Rosemary wrapped herself in silence.
In We Are All Completely beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler weaves her most accomplished work to datea tale of loving but fallible people whose well-intentioned actions lead to heartbreaking consequences.
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- New York Times Book Review, 03/23/2014, Page 28