Where'd You Go, Bernadette
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this "whip-smart and divinely funny" novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (New York Times).Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect; and to 15-year-old Bee, she is her best friend and, simply, Mom.
Then Bernadette vanishes. It all began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle -- and people in general -- has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands. A trip to the end of the earth is problematic.
To find her mother, Bee compiles email messages, official documents, and secret correspondence -- creating a compulsively readable and surprisingly touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's role in an absurd world.
Maria Semple spent a few years traveling around Europe with her parents. They lived in Spain for a while, and it was there that their father, Lorenzo, wrote Batman scripts. After they moved to Colorado, Maria went to Choate Rosemary Hall, where she was very happy. Superior studies were pursued at Barnard, and Maria decided to pursue a career as a novelist there. Nevertheless, his plans were thwarted when he began working as a guionist for Twentieth Century Fox.
He moved to Los Angeles and worked on the television shows Beverly Hills, 90210, Ellen, Crazy About You, and Arrested Development. Maria had a child and began writing novels, the first of which was This One is Mine, and the second, Dónde estás, Bernadette, which has risen to the top of The New York Times bestseller lists.http://www.mariasemple.com/
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| ISBN 13 | 9780316204262 |
| ISBN 10 | 0316204269 |
| Title | Where'd You Go, Bernadette |
| Author | Maria Semple |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown & Company |
| Year published | 2013-04-02 |
| Number of pages | 330 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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