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Almost
de Benedict, Elizabeth
- Usado
- Bueno
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Bueno/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0618143327
- ISBN 13
- 9780618143320
- Librería
-
Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
Houghton Mifflin, 2001-08-29. First edition, first printing. Paperback. near fine/near fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 258 pages, dark blue quarter-cloth with gilt title on spine. A near fine, clean, sturdy hard cover with minor shelf wear, gently read, binding solid, paper cream white. In a near fine, clean, slightly worn dust jacket with the original price present.
Sinopsis
The hilarious opening of Almost does little to prepare either the reader or the narrator, Sophy Chase, for the drama of what is to come. Almost divorced, Sophy is in bed with her new lover — an art dealer and father of four young children — when the police call her with shocking news. Her almost ex-husband, Will, has died suddenly on the Massachusetts island where she left him just months before. Dazed and grief-stricken, Sophy takes off at once for Swansea Island, hurled back into a life and family — her husband’s grown twin daughters and their prickly mother — she had intended to leave behind. In the tension-filled days that follow, Sophy’s past and present collide as she struggles to find out how her husband died, what role she might have had in the sudden disappearance of her boyfriend’s ten-year-old daughter, and how she can maintain her equilibrium. The gulf between the island’s summer people and its year-rounders is brought vividly to life in the process, as is the particular beauty of a setting that resembles Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. A story about starting over and looking back, about the pain of staying and the consequences of leaving, and about a woman’s longing for children, Almost presses us to wonder how much responsibility we bear for other people’s happiness — and who exactly we are when we’re in limbo. By this riveting novel’s end, Sophy has it all figured out — almost.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 52617
- Título
- Almost
- Autor
- Benedict, Elizabeth
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- near fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition, first printing
- ISBN 10
- 0618143327
- ISBN 13
- 9780618143320
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 2001-08-29
- Palabras clave
- Fiction
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Sobre el vendedor
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Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Newmarket, New Hampshire
Sobre Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
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- Jacket
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