This is the engrossing story of four generations of women, going back to Great-Grandmother GrandMin.... 'Who did you say you were?" GrandMin asks Angela, and not for the first time. Angela answers patiently, but she cannot get used to the fact that GrandMin does not know her. Twelve-year-old Angela, her brother, Brian, and their parents are spending their vacation with Gram and GrandMin. Angela is lonely in her mother's hometown of Gatesville, once called Jericho. There are no young people her age in the town, and their ...
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This is the engrossing story of four generations of women, going back to Great-Grandmother GrandMin.... 'Who did you say you were?" GrandMin asks Angela, and not for the first time. Angela answers patiently, but she cannot get used to the fact that GrandMin does not know her. Twelve-year-old Angela, her brother, Brian, and their parents are spending their vacation with Gram and GrandMin. Angela is lonely in her mother's hometown of Gatesville, once called Jericho. There are no young people her age in the town, and their visit has to be prolonged when Gram sprains her ankle. In alternate sections Janet Hickman seamlessly interweaves the past and present as the lives of her protagonists, Min and Angela, unfold. This spare, beautifully written, emotion-packed story is unforgettable.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Size: 8x5x1; Hardcover with dust jacket. Stated First Edition. 1st printing (no later printings indicated). Clean and tight. No markings. Ships in a box. Ships from NYC.
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New York. 1974. March 1974. Holt Rinehart Winston. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With A Few Small Tears. 0030117968. 194 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Jon McIntosh. keywords: Mystery America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-The year is 1944. Overseas the Allies are sweeping across Europe. At home Franklin D. Roosevelt is running for an unprecedented fourth term against Thomas E. Dewey. And in New York City, Jack LeVine, a bald private detective, is spending a hot summer staring at the file clerks across the way, drinking Blatz beer, and trying to stay near a fan. When Kerry Lane, a chorus girl in the hit musical GI Canteen asks LeVine to recover stag films she made while down on her luck in Hollywood, the detective gets involved in the most bizarre episode of his undistinguished career. A routine blackmail assignment deepens into a murder case and, finally, into a matter directly affecting the outcome of the Second World War and the presidential election. Along the way LeVine has a gothic brush with death in the Catskills, is set up for a rooftop kill in Philadelphia, and ‘plunges into a zero-hour confrontation with his adversaries in that shrine of forties' culture, Radio City. He meets a top Broadway producer, Three-star generals, a presidential candidate, and a galaxy of three-time losers, four-flushers, and snotty elevator operators. LeVine handles them all with the aplomb that is his trade. Mark. In this outrageous and funny novel of political shenanigans, Andrew Berg. man has captured the tough but sentimental mood of the 1940s and, in the character of Jack LeVine, has created a shamus in the venerable mode of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe. inventory #11781.
