Monkeys
NATIONAL BESTSELLERIn this luminous story of family life--the first novel by Susan Minot, author of the highly acclaimed Evening--the seven Vincent children follow their Catholic mother to Mass and spend Thanksgiving with their father's aging parents who come from a world of New England...
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NATIONAL BESTSELLERIn this luminous story of family life--the first novel by Susan Minot, author of the highly acclaimed Evening--the seven Vincent children follow their Catholic mother to Mass and spend Thanksgiving with their father's aging parents who come from a world of New England priviledge. As they grow older, they meet with the perplexing lives of adults. Susan Minot writes with delicacy and a tremendous gift for the details that decorate domestic life, and when tragedy strikes she beautifully mines the children's tenderness for each other, and their aching guardianship of what they have.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780375708367 (0375708367)
Publish date: August 8th 2000
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Family,
Contemporary,
Short Stories,
High School
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