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The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir
by Homes, A. M
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670038385
- ISBN 13
- 9780670038381
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Viking, 2007-04-05. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Signed by author on title page. The binding is Clean and tight with minor shelf wear. Light wear on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.
Synopsis
The acclaimed writer A. M. Homes was given up for adoption before she was born. Her biological mother was a twenty-two-year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older married man with a family of his own. The Mistress's Daughter is the ruthlessly honest account of what happened when, thirty years later, her birth parents came looking for her. Homes relates how they initially made contact and what happened afterwards, and digs through the family history of both sets of her parents in a twenty-first-century electronic search for self. Daring, heartbreaking, and startlingly funny, Homes's memoir is a brave and profoundly moving consideration of identity and family.
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- Bookseller
- Chaparral Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CHAPhomTMD
- Title
- The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir
- Author
- Homes, A. M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670038385
- ISBN 13
- 9780670038381
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007-04-05
- Size
- 6x1x9
- X weight
- 13 oz
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About the Seller
Chaparral Books
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Portland, Oregon
About Chaparral Books
Chaparral Books is located across from Elephant's Deli on S Corbett Avenue in Portland. We have a well rounded collection of subjects, including an extensive core collection in Western Americana and Native American Literature including Western Writers.
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- Title Page
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