Pert, tart, often perfect stories from the eastern seaboard of the USA. Every one of these stories is knowing, wry, sad, funny, engaging, full of unexpected detail, perceptive in the extreme. Heidi Jon Schmidt has an ear for dialogue, but more so for what is unsaid, for the huge chasms of unspoken communication in everyday life. Her heroes are the ever-so-slightly left-of-centre misfits, who are certain there is something missing from their lives but can't quite work out what. Whether her subject is an eleven-year ...
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Pert, tart, often perfect stories from the eastern seaboard of the USA. Every one of these stories is knowing, wry, sad, funny, engaging, full of unexpected detail, perceptive in the extreme. Heidi Jon Schmidt has an ear for dialogue, but more so for what is unsaid, for the huge chasms of unspoken communication in everyday life. Her heroes are the ever-so-slightly left-of-centre misfits, who are certain there is something missing from their lives but can't quite work out what. Whether her subject is an eleven-year-old girl grieving for her dog, a middle-aged man whose wife has left him and must return to live with his mother, an elderly lady whose husband has Alzheimers, a ninety-year-old revered poet, a group of talentless but wildly enthusiastic would-be novelists, she invests them with a credibility that makes one care passionately for them.
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Used; Very Good. Picador. Used; Very Good. Picador, 2001. Hardcover. Previous owner name on front free end page. First edition. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2001. First Edition. HARDCOVER.
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Good. Bumped edges Creased cover Sun Damage to edge of pages. Book is warped Next working day dispatch from the UK (Mon-Fri). Please contact us with any queries.
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Fair. Large cut mark to the front cover. Creased pages. Book is warped. Next working day dispatch from the UK (Mon-Fri). Please contact us with any queries.
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Very good in Very good jacket. VGC plus. Picador, 2001. First US edition-first printing(10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Red hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, small mark on the edge of the cover) with Dj(a couple of small nicks, crease and ink marks on the Dj cover), both in VGC plus. Nice and clean pages but with a small black marker mark on the outer edges, light shelf wear on the Dj cover. The book is in VGC except for the marker mark.245pp. Price un-clipped.
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Very Good. SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING! ! A beautiful copy with only light shelfwear to dustjacket and 6 or 7 tiny coffee stain droplets on top of page block. Still gift quality. Not a remainder copy.
