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The hazards of good breeding / Jessica Shattuck.
LIBRA Special PS3619.H357 H39 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shattuck, Jessica.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young women--Fiction.
- Young women.
- Children of divorced parents--Fiction.
- Children of divorced parents.
- Women college graduates--Fiction.
- Women college graduates.
- Parent and adult child--Fiction.
- Parent and adult child.
- Upper class families--Fiction.
- Upper class families.
- Boston (Mass.)--Fiction.
- Boston (Mass.).
- Housekeepers--Fiction.
- Housekeepers.
- Massachusetts--Boston.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 292 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, 2004.
- Summary:
- THIS "RICHLY APPOINTED and generously portrayed" ("Kirkus Reviews) debut novel tells the story of a Waspy, old-Boston family coming face to face with an America much larger than the one it was born in. Told from five perspectives, the novel spans an explosive week in the life of the Dunlaps, culminating in a series of events that will change their way of life forever. "The Hazards of Good Breeding is a startlingly perceptive comedy of manners that heralds a new writer of dazzling talent.
- Notes:
- "First published as a Norton paperback 2004."
- Includes "Reading group guide": p. [293-299].
- ISBN:
- 0393324834
- 9780393324839
- OCLC:
- 55803690
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