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Bowlaway : a novel / Elizabeth McCracken.
Van Pelt Library PS3563.C35248 B69 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCracken, Elizabeth, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Massachusetts--Fiction.
- Families.
- Bowling alleys--Fiction.
- Bowling alleys.
- Inheritance and succession--Fiction.
- Inheritance and succession.
- Massachusetts.
- FICTION / Literary.
- FICTION / Family Life.
- FICTION / Historical.
- FICTION / Family Life / General.
- FICTION / Historical / General.
- Local Subjects:
- FICTION / Literary.
- FICTION / Family Life.
- FICTION / Historical.
- FICTION / Family Life / General.
- FICTION / Historical / General.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Historical Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 373 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Ecco, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019]
- Summary:
- "A sweeping and enchanting new novel from the widely beloved, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken about three generations of an unconventional New England family who own and operate a candlepin bowling alley"-- Provided by publisher.
- Bertha Truitt has always been an enigma to people in Salford, Massachusetts. She was discovered unconscious in a cemetery at the turn of the twentieth century-- nothing but a bowling ball, a candlepin, and fifteen pounds of gold on her person. She marries and starts a family with Leviticus Sprague, the doctor who revived her. The bowling alley she opens quickly becomes Salford's most defining landmark. When Bertha dies in a freak accident, her heretofore-unheard-of son arrives, claiming Truitt Alleys. This begins generations of inheritance battles, murky paternities, and hidden wills. -- adapted from jacket
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.
- Other Format:
- Online version: McCracken, Elizabeth. Bowlaway.
- ISBN:
- 9780062862853
- 0062862855
- 9780062862860
- 0062862863
- OCLC:
- 1035394788
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