Object Lessons

Quindlen, Anna

ISBN 10: 0394569652 / ISBN 13: 9780394569659

Published by Random House, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 1991

About this Item

Random House, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 1991. First (1st) Printing of the "First Edition" (stated with the number line down to 2 per publisher's designation of a first printing). Near Fine in an As New Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight and square with no markings other than foxing to the top-edge and fore-edge. The Binding is green quarter cloth to light green boards, colors faded at top and bottom edges, bright gilt author's initials and design to the front board, bright gilt title, etc., to the spine, white endpapers unmarked but for a prior owner's name at the top of the front free endpaper, and all corners square, top corners sharp. The Dust Jacket is flawless - colors bright and uniform throughout, and fully intact with the original prices ($USA $19.00 Canada $25.00) intact on the front flap. See the photos. 262, [i] pages. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2". The author's first novel. A bildungsroman / coming-of-age story, the novel focuses on 13-year old Maggie in an Irish-Italian family living in the New York City suburbs in the 1960s. ISBN 10: 0394569652 / ISBN 13: 9780394569659.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Object Lessons
• Publisher: Random House, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394569652
• ISBN 13: 9780394569659
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Dimensions: 6.25W x 9.5H x 0D inches 6.25 inches width by 9.5 inches height by 0 inches depth

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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.