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Spence + Lila / Bobbie Ann Mason ; illustrations by La Nelle Mason.
LIBRA - Special PS3563.A7877 S64 1988b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mason, Bobbie Ann.
- Series:
- Harper short novel series
- The Harper short novel series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Married people--Fiction.
- Married people.
- Older people--Medical care.
- Older people--Fiction.
- Older people.
- Older people--Medical care--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Love stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Mason, Bobbie Ann (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 147 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- Uncorrected proof.
- Other Title:
- Spence and Lila.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Row, [1988]
- Summary:
- This unusual love story is about Spence and Lila Culpepper who have been married for more than forty years. It tells of the responses of their respective hearts to their first major encounter with old age and mortality. Lila has been hospitalized and goes through one medical procedure after another while her dazed husband and adult children stand helplessly by.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy signed by the author.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has photograph of the author laid in.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has receipt from Ken Lopez Bookseller laid in.
- OCLC:
- 904343003
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