Bath: Chivers Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 2001. Reprint; First Printing. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear to unclipped DJ, ink name to top of front endpaper. ; Orange cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy. DJ photo by Marcus Lyon. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; The Windsor Selection; 352 pages; The Davitch house was a crumbling 19th-century row house in Baltimore where giving parties was the family business. It was where Joe Davitch first saw Rebecca, a girl that seemed to be having more fun than anyone else, and decided to marry her. But now, years after she has lost her husband in a car accident, Rebecca asks herself whether she is an imposter in her own life. Is she really the natural born celebrationist, outgoing and jouous? Can she always be there for the other members of the Davitch clan? .

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Back When We Were Grownups is a 2001 novel written by Anne Tyler in memory of her husband, who died in 1997. Tyler's 15th novel, set in Baltimore, Maryland like most of her work, opens with the sentence, "Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person. " The woman in question is Rebecca Davitch, a 53-year-old widow, mother, grandmother, and proprietor of a party and catering business run from her home called Open Arms.

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Bookseller: Books in Bulgaria (BG)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 28753
Title: Back When We Were Grownups
Author: Tyler, Anne
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Edition: Reprint; First Printing
ISBN 10: 075401617X
ISBN 13: 9780754016175
Publisher: Chivers Press
Place of Publication: Bath
Date Published: 2001
Bookseller catalogs: Large Print;

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