The Secret: A Fable For Our Time

Hoffman, Eva

ISBN 10: 0436256193 / ISBN 13: 9780436256196

Published by Secker & Warburg, London, Eng, 2001

About this Item

Complete number line from 1 to 10; inscribed and dated Oct. 1, 2001 on the title page by Eva Hoffman:"To __, with love, Eva Hoffman"; some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; previous owner's book plate on front end paper; otherwise a solid, clean copy in collectible condition.

Seller Inventory # 004228

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Secret: A Fable For Our Time
• Publisher: Secker & Warburg, London, Eng
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0436256193
• ISBN 13: 9780436256196
• Binding: No Binding
• Edition: British First.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, Not Price Clipped
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

Explores various kinds and strata of intimate secrets and secrets of family the kinds of secrets that can be decoded from clues, and the kind that themselves seem to offer tantalizing clues to the fundamental mysteries of the human selfhood. This novel is about a mother-daughter bond and a young womans quest for individuation.

From the Inside Flap

Iris Surrey has a secret.

Iris Surrey is a secret.

An only child, Iris lives with her mother in a rambling house in a small midwestern town. Her mother is everything: provider, confidante, friend. But at seventeen, Iris begins to question their nearly symbiotic relationship—and the noticeable lack of others in their sheltered world. Where is Iris’s father? Where are her grandparents? What is her mother keeping from her? When she stumbles upon the explosive truth, Iris begins a monumental journey of self-discovery—one that will throw everything she has ever known into turmoil.