Book
Object Lessons / Anna Quindlen.
Record details
- ISBN: 0394569652 :
- ISBN: 9780394569659
- ISBN: 080410946X (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0449001016 (pbk. : 1st Ballantine Books trade ed.) :
- Physical Description: 262 p. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, 1991.
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | In this novel about a large Irish-Italian family in the late 1960s, young Maggie Scanlan begins to sense that, beneath the calm, everyday surface of her peaceful suburban life, everything is going mysteriously wrong especially during one summer that changes their lives |
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| Subject: | New York (N.Y.) > Fiction. Girls > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Coming-of-age fiction. Bildungsromans. Coming-of-age fiction. |
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Available copies
- 3 of 3 copies available at GRPL.
Holds
0 current holds with 3 total copies.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Main | Fiction Quindlen (Text) | 31307021339082 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Main | Fiction Quindlen (Text) | 31307023583273 | Storage | Available | - |
| Van Belkum | Fiction Quindlen : 6/93 (Text) | 31307007239132 | Fiction | Available | - |
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Author Notes
Object Lessons
Author Anna Quindlen was born in Philadelphia on July 8, 1953. She graduated from Barnard in 1974 and serves on their Board of Trustees. Quindlen worked as a reporter for the New York Post and the New York Times and wrote columns for the Times. She won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary before devoting herself to writing fiction. She has written both adult fiction (including Object Lessons, Black and Blue and One True Thing, which was made into a motion picture starring Meryl Streep) and children's fiction (Happily Ever After and The Tree That Came to Stay). Her title Alternate Side made the bestseller list in 2018. Currently, she is a columnist at Newsweek. Her title Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake made The New York Times Best Seller list for 2012. (Bowker Author Biography)
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