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Mrs. Ted Bliss / Stanley Elkin.
Van Pelt Library PS3555.L47 M76 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elkin, Stanley, 1930-1995.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Condominiums--Florida--Miami--Fiction.
- Condominiums.
- Florida--Miami.
- Widows--Florida--Miami--Fiction.
- Widows.
- Retirement communities--Fiction.
- Retirement communities.
- Drug traffic--Fiction.
- Drug traffic.
- Older women--Fiction.
- Older women.
- Florida--Fiction.
- Florida.
- Widows--Fiction.
- Humorous fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Humorous fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 291 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Madam Ted Bliss
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hyperion, [1995]
- Summary:
- The life of a retired senior citizen. She is Dorothy Bliss, a widow after a butcher who lives in a condo in Miami. The novel follows her everyday life--cleaning, cooking, writing letters--all the while recording her memories and her wise observations on life. A slice of life enlivened by a brush with drug dealers. By the author of George Mills.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Elkin, Stanley, 1930-1995. Mrs. Ted Bliss.
- ISBN:
- 0786861045
- 9780786861040
- OCLC:
- 31971349
- Online:
- Publisher description
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