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American Cookery: A Novel
by Kalpakian, Laura
- New
- Hardcover
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0312348118
- ISBN 13
- 9780312348113
- Seller
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New. New Ships From Canada New in new dust jacket Glued binding Paper over boards With dust jacket 419 p Audience: General/trade From Booklist: Food provides the structure on which Kalpakian builds this novel of a twentieth-century woman's life Eden comes from an extended, tightly knit Mormon family full of strong females Her genealogy-obsessed father succeeds in little he attempts, and even migrating from California to Idaho becomes a setback for the family A rebellious streak inherited from her mother leads Eden in a different direction from conventional Mormon tradition She develops more than casual interest in food, starting with a youthful encounter with an elderly black woman who owns a local diner To help tell Eden's story, Kalpakian employs "'"snapshots, "'" sidebars to the text that flesh out a character or forward a secondary plot In addition to this narrative, Kalpakian includes several-dozen recipes for foods that figure in her heroine's life: gingerbread, pork chops co
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- Bookseller
- Pine Tree Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9686966266
- Title
- American Cookery: A Novel
- Author
- Kalpakian, Laura
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0312348118
- ISBN 13
- 9780312348113
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Place of Publication
- Gordonsville, Virginia, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- September 5, 2006
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