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Almost
by Benedict, Elizabeth
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0618143327
- ISBN 13
- 9780618143320
- Seller
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Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Hard cover. 0618143327 . Hardcover. Book is fine-as new. DJ has very tiny scrape at upper left corner, else as new. Signed by author on title page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 258 pages; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
The hilarious opening of Almost does little to prepare either the reader or the narrator, Sophy Chase, for the drama of what is to come. Almost divorced, Sophy is in bed with her new lover — an art dealer and father of four young children — when the police call her with shocking news. Her almost ex-husband, Will, has died suddenly on the Massachusetts island where she left him just months before. Dazed and grief-stricken, Sophy takes off at once for Swansea Island, hurled back into a life and family — her husband’s grown twin daughters and their prickly mother — she had intended to leave behind. In the tension-filled days that follow, Sophy’s past and present collide as she struggles to find out how her husband died, what role she might have had in the sudden disappearance of her boyfriend’s ten-year-old daughter, and how she can maintain her equilibrium. The gulf between the island’s summer people and its year-rounders is brought vividly to life in the process, as is the particular beauty of a setting that resembles Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. A story about starting over and looking back, about the pain of staying and the consequences of leaving, and about a woman’s longing for children, Almost presses us to wonder how much responsibility we bear for other people’s happiness — and who exactly we are when we’re in limbo. By this riveting novel’s end, Sophy has it all figured out — almost.
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Details
- Bookseller
- James F. Balsley, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11838
- Title
- Almost
- Author
- Benedict, Elizabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0618143327
- ISBN 13
- 9780618143320
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- 0618143327
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; First Editions, Signed, & Collectible;
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About the Seller
James F. Balsley, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2006
Williamsburg, Virginia
About James F. Balsley, Bookseller
My business is strictly on-line sales. I carry an inventory of about 2000 books. About half of these are modern fiction. Most of the rest are scholarly academic books concentrated in the areas of natural science, philosophy, history, and literature.
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