A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories (Puffin Modern Classics)
by Peck, Richard
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- Paperback
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- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0142401102
- ISBN 13
- 9780142401101
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Synopsis
What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice -- two city slickers from Chicago -- make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town? August 1929: They see their first corpse, and he isn't resting easy. August 1930: The Cowgill boys terrorize the town, and Grandma fights back. August 1931: Joey and Mary Alice help Grandma trespass, poach, catch the sheriff in his underwear, and feed the hungry -- all in one day. And there's more, as Joey and Mary Alice make seven summer trips to Grandma's -- each one funnier than the year before -- in self-contained chapters that readers can enjoy as short stories or take together for a rollicking good novel. In the tradition of American humorists from Mark Twain to Flannery O'Connor, popular author Richard Peck has created a memorable world filled with characters who, like Grandma herself, are larger than life and twice as entertaining.
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- World of Books Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GOR003092835
- Title
- A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories (Puffin Modern Classics)
- Author
- Peck, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0142401102
- ISBN 13
- 9780142401101
- Publisher
- Puffin
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- This edition first published
- April 12, 2004
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