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THE KINDEST LIE.
by Johnson, Nancy
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Fine in illustrated wrappers. A rather uncommon ARC.
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins),, (2021). First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers. A rather uncommon ARC. . Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) The author's highly praised first novel, a "layered, complex exploration of race and class." (The Washington Post) It opens in 2008, with the inauguration of President Barack Obama; Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man who is eager to start a family, but Ruth has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to-and was forced to leave behind - when she was a teenager - and a secret she has kept all her adult life. But, now, in order to move forward, she has to confront the past and so she returns to the Indiana factory town she grew up, now plagued by unemployment, racism, and despair. 326 pp.
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- Seller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 84559
- Title
- THE KINDEST LIE.
- Author
- Johnson, Nancy
- Format/Binding
- First edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in illustrated wrappers. A rather uncommon ARC.
- Publisher
- Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins),
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2021)
- Keywords
- first novel, women authors, arc, uncorrected proof,
- Bookseller catalogs
- African American Literature;
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Ione, California
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Wrappers
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- Reading Copy
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