Click for full-size.
All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
by Brown, Janelle
- Used
- as new
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- Seller
-
Saginaw, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Spiegel & Grau, 2008. First printing. Blue and white boards; 401 pages. This book appears unread; it is not an ex-library book; there is no remainder mark; the book is not price clipped; no internal markings; it has a solid binding; there are no chips or tears;. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
Synopsis
A smart, comic page-turner about a Silicon Valley family in free fall over the course of one eventful summer.When Paul Miller's pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she's been waiting years for -- until she learns, via messengered letter, that her husband is divorcing her (for her tennis partner!) and cutting her out of the new fortune. Meanwhile, four hundred miles south in Los Angeles, the Millers' older daughter, Margaret, has been dumped by her newly famous actor boyfriend and left in the lurch by an investor who promised to revive her fledgling post-feminist magazine, Snatch. Sliding toward bankruptcy and dogged by creditors, she flees for home where her younger sister Lizzie, 14, is struggling with problems of her own. Formerly chubby, Lizzie has been enjoying her newfound popularity until some bathroom graffiti alerts her to the fact that she's become the school slut.The three Miller women retreat behind the walls of their Georgian colonial to wage battle with divorce lawyers, debt collectors, drug-dealing pool boys, mean girls, country club ladies, evangelical neighbors, their own demons, and each other, and in the process they become achingly sympathetic characters we can't help but root for, even as the world they live in epitomizes everything wrong with the American Dream. Exhilarating, addictive, and superbly accomplished, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything crackles with energy and intelligence and marks the debut of a knowing and very funny novelist, wise beyond her years.From the Hardcover edition.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Riverhorsebooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TBA002436
- Title
- All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
- Author
- Brown, Janelle
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Spiegel & Grau
- Date Published
- 2008
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Riverhorsebooks
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Riverhorsebooks
Biblio member since 2015
Saginaw, Michigan
About Riverhorsebooks
We are online-only booksellers...in business since 2000. We love books and book people, always trying our best to satisfy customer needs and wants; we have been five-star sellers since the start.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
Frequently asked questions
What is a professional bookseller?
Just about anyone can sell a book, but a professional bookseller knows the ins and outs of the rare book trade. Learn more!
Beat Poet Michael McClure
From the fateful reading at Six-Gallery in 1955 to his novels, poetry, and stage productions, Michael McClure was right in the thick of the Beat Generation as it was born. See his books and art and learn more about the works of Michael McClure.
