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Big Little Lies (Signed First Edition)
de Liane Moriarty
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0399167064
- ISBN 13
- 9780399167065
- Librería
-
Tomball, Texas, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Stated First American Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; SIGNED by the author on the 2nd free paper. A very good book in a very good dust jacket. "Signed Copy" sticker to the front panel (may be removed). A handsome copy of this novel now the basis for the outstanding TV series. This is a very good volume that is clean, tight, and bright with light soiling to the boards and exterior text block and a slight lean to the binding, else near fine or better. Housed in a very good dust jacket that shows light rubbing to the spine ends and edges, some very small areas of soiling, and a previous bookstore sticker to the back panel, else a crisp and vibrant jacket. Not price clipped, not remaindered, not ex-library. In archival protection.
Reseñas
“The Blonde Bobs rule the school. If you want to be on the P&C you have to have a blonde bob…..They’re like Mum Prefects, they feel very strongly about their roles as school mums. It’s like their religion. They’re fundamentalist mothers”
Big Little Lies is the sixth novel by Australian author, Liane Moriarty. The Pirriwee Peninsula on Sydney’s Northern Beaches is home to a diverse range of people, many of whom have children at the Pirriwee Public School and so are present at the Annual Trivia Night Fundraiser. But this year, one of those parents ends up dead. This one, intriguing fact is presented in the first chapter, after which the narrative jumps back six months to trace the sequence of events that led to the tragedy.
Moriarty uses three narrators, each of whom has children starting in Kindergarten: Madeline, confident, outgoing and never averse to voicing her outrage at the smallest injustice; Jane, a single mum with a dark secret in her past; and Celeste, rich and beautiful, and married to a seemingly perfect man. Other perspectives are presented in the form of quotes (some quite perceptive, some decidedly frivolous) recorded after the event by a journalist, from parents and teachers present on the night.
Moriarty gives the reader an original plot with a twist that only the most astute reader will predict. The setting is commonplace and easily recognisable and Moriarty captures the feel of the school situation perfectly. The dialogue is familiar from any café or school playground and the characters are real and flawed; none is wholly good or completely evil. Several characters will surprise at the climax, and the reader may even feel some sympathy for the abuser. Readers are likely to find themselves hoping none of the narrators is the Trivia Night victim.
Moriarty touches on some topical themes as well as some age-old topics: domestic violence; body image; the dangers of a one-night-stand; bullying; victim mentality; erotic asphyxiation; infidelity; and bizarre internet auctions. She manages to include a lost plush toy, a Kindy Mothers race, head lice (of course!), a petition, a twisted ankle, a French nanny, little bullies and big bullies, an ex-husband, a gorgeous barista, a profusion of Elvises and Audrey Hepburns and plenty of laugh-out-loud moments.
Moriarty gives her characters both wise words and amusing observations: “Then, as she hit her late thirties, her body said: OK, you don’t believe in PMT? I’ll show you PMT. Get a load of this, bitch” and “Ex-husbands should live in different suburbs. They should send their children to different schools. There should be legislation …..”. Also “She looked straight ahead at the briskly working windshield wipers. The windscreen was just like never-ending cycles of her mind. Confusion. Clear. Confusion. Clear. Confusion. Clear.” and “Jane saw that Madeline’s feelings about Jane’s baking were similar to Jane’s feelings about Madeline’s accessories: confused admiration for an exotic sort of behaviour”
Fans of The Husband’s Secret will not be disappointed with Big Little Lies. Readers who can ignore the misspelling of peninsula throughout the text will agree that this is, once again, a brilliant read.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 3274
- Título
- Big Little Lies (Signed First Edition)
- Autor
- Liane Moriarty
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0399167064
- ISBN 13
- 9780399167065
- Editorial
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2014-07
- Palabras clave
- First Edition, Signed
Términos de venta
Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA
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Sobre el vendedor
Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA
Sobre Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA
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