Object Lessons

Anna Quindlen

ISBN 10: 0394569652 / ISBN 13: 9780394569659

Published by Random House, 1991

About this Item

Jacket/ Cover has some wear-Edge wear, Protected in plastic Book Condition- Very Good + Boards are split green In Color with gold Print on spine. Boards have some light Wear- edge wear, light Bumping to spine/ some corners . Pages are clean and well kept. 1st edition; 2nd printing as stated in book. **ADDITIONAL SHIPPING MAY APPLY TO INTERNATIONAL ORDERS** **LARGER BOOKS MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING** About the book: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR "Elaborate and playful.Honest and deeply felt.Here is the Quindlen wit, the sharp eye for the details of class and manners, [and] the ardent reading of domestic lives." THE NEW YORK TIMES It is the 1960s, in suburban New York City. Maggie and her family, are in the thrall of her powerful grandfather Jack Scanlan. In the summer of her twelfth year, Maggie is despertately trying to master the object lessons her grandfather fills her head with. But there is too much going on to concentrate. Everything at home is in upheaval, her grandfather is changing, and Maggie is unsure if what she wants is worth having. From the Paperback edition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Object Lessons
• Publisher: Random House
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394569652
• ISBN 13: 9780394569659
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction-Historical
  • Fiction-General

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Synopsis

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
"Elaborate and playful...Honest and deeply felt....Here is the Quindlen wit, the sharp eye for the details of class and manners, [and] the ardent reading of domestic lives."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
It is the 1960s, in suburban New York City. Maggie and her family, are in the thrall of her powerful grandfather Jack Scanlan. In the summer of her twelfth year, Maggie is despertately trying to master the object lessons her grandfather fills her head with. But there is too much going on to concentrate. Everything at home is in upheaval, her grandfather is changing, and Maggie is unsure if what she wants is worth having....


From the Paperback edition.

About the Author

ANNA QUINDLEN is the author of three bestselling novels, Object Lessons, One True Thing, and Black and Blue. Her New York Times column “Public & Private” won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, and a selection of those columns was published as Thinking Out Loud. She is also the author of a collection of her “Life in the 30’s”columns, Living Out Loud; a book for the Library of Contemporary Thought, How Reading Changed My Life; the bestselling A Short Guide to a Happy Life; and two children’s books, The Tree That Came to Stay and Happily Ever After. She is currently a columnist for Newsweek and lives with her husband and children in New York City.


From the Trade Paperback edition.