Object Lessons by Anna Quindlen

Object Lessons by Anna Quindlen

It is the 1960s, in suburban New York City, and twelve-year-old Maggie Scanlan begins to sense that despite the calm surface of her peaceful life, everything is going strangely wrong. When her all-powerful grandfather is struck down by a stroke, the reverberations affect Maggie's entire family.

An intelligent, highly entertaining novel laced with acute perceptions about the nature of day-to-day family life -- Anne Tyler * New York Times Book Review *
The characters are quirky and vividly drawn.. The writing is lovely, and shows humour and quiet insight ... Quindlen is an intellignet and imaginative writer * Boston Globe *
Elaborate and playful... Honest and deeply felt... Here is the Quindlen wit, the sharp eye for details of class and manners ... the ardent reading of domestic lives. * New York Times *
Anna Quindlen's first novel is about an experience that is the same for everyone and different for us all: the time when we suddenly see our family with an outsider's eye and begin the separation that marks our growing up. * Washington Post *
Quindlen is at her best writing about the dislocations of growing up, the blows a child does not see coming * Time *

Anna Quindlen is the author of five bestselling novels and has one the Pulitzer Prize for her New York Times column 'Public and Private'. She lives with her family in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780099538158
ISBN 10	0099538156
Title	Object Lessons
Author	Anna Quindlen
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cornerstone
Year published	2012-04-05
Number of pages	288
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