Object Lessons-Signed and Inscribed

Anna Quindlen

ISBN 10: 0394569652 / ISBN 13: 9780394569659

Published by Random House, NY, 1991

About this Item

Random House, NY, 1991, 262 pages. First/First in Near Fine/Fine condition with some soiling and dings to book edges and minor shelfwear to dj(see photos). The Author has warmly Inscribed and Signed on the ffep "Happy Birthday, Sarah! Best- Anna Quindlen". Coming of age novel centered on a large Italian-Irish family in the late 1960's. Quindlen won a Pulitzer for her NY Times articles in 1992. Price intact. All books bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box.

Seller Inventory # 0319331

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Object Lessons-Signed and Inscribed
• Publisher: Random House, NY
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394569652
• ISBN 13: 9780394569659
• Binding: 9 1/2 x 6 3/8
• Edition: First edition, First printing.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern Fiction

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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.