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What's Eating Gilbert Grape
by Peter Hedges
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Like new/Like new
- ISBN 10
- 0671735098
- ISBN 13
- 9780671735098
- Seller
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Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Item Price
€89.67€80.70
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About This Item
Poseidon Press, 1991. First. Hardcover. Like new/Like new. ***Inscribed by Author*** Like new two-toned paper covered hardcover with gilt lettering to spine. Like new dust jacket. 8vo. (6.5 x 1 x 9.75 inches) First edition with full number line. Author's signature and inscription on the title page. Clean text free of marks or underlining. 335 pp.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Just about everything in Endora, Iowa (pop. 1,091 and dwindling) is eating Gilbert Grape, a twenty-four-year-old grocery clerk who dreams only of leaving. His enormous mother, once the town sweetheart, has been eating nonstop ever since her husband's suicide, and the floor beneath her TV chair is threatening to cave in. Gilbert's long-suffering older sister, Amy, still mourns the death of Elvis, and his knockout younger sister has become hooked on makeup, boys, and Jesus -- in that order. But the biggest event on the horizon for all the Grapes is the eighteenth birthday of Gilbert's younger brother, Arnie, who is a living miracle just for having survived so long. As the Grapes gather in Endora, a mysterious beauty glides through town on a bicycle and rides circles around Gilbert, until he begins to see a new vision of his family and himself....
With this wry portrait of small-town Iowa -- and a young man's life at the crossroads -- Peter Hedges created a classic American novel "charged with sardonic intelligence" (Washington Post Book World).
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Just about everything in Endora, Iowa (pop. 1,091 and dwindling) is eating Gilbert Grape, a twenty-four-year-old grocery clerk who dreams only of leaving. His enormous mother, once the town sweetheart, has been eating nonstop ever since her husband's suicide, and the floor beneath her TV chair is threatening to cave in. Gilbert's long-suffering older sister, Amy, still mourns the death of Elvis, and his knockout younger sister has become hooked on makeup, boys, and Jesus -- in that order. But the biggest event on the horizon for all the Grapes is the eighteenth birthday of Gilbert's younger brother, Arnie, who is a living miracle just for having survived so long. As the Grapes gather in Endora, a mysterious beauty glides through town on a bicycle and rides circles around Gilbert, until he begins to see a new vision of his family and himself....
With this wry portrait of small-town Iowa -- and a young man's life at the crossroads -- Peter Hedges created a classic American novel "charged with sardonic intelligence" (Washington Post Book World).
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- Bookseller
- The Anthropologists Closet
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 201247
- Title
- What's Eating Gilbert Grape
- Author
- Peter Hedges
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Like new
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0671735098
- ISBN 13
- 9780671735098
- Publisher
- Poseidon Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- Literary fiction, family drama, grief, Iowa, young adult,
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