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A Seahorse Year
by D'Erasmo, Stacey
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0618439234
- ISBN 13
- 9780618439232
- Seller
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Modesto, California, United States
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About This Item
U. S. A.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0618439234 . First edition/First printing. Book is in unread condition; however, there is a small bump at the base of the spine. Dust jacket is Fine. .
Synopsis
Stacey D'Erasmo's new novel, following the highly acclaimed Tea, is a powerful and beautiful book about a pivotal year in the life of a quintessentially modern family. In contemporary San Francisco, an extended family is transformed by the emerging breakdown of a troubled adolescent boy. The lives of those who love Christopher -- his mother, Nan; her lover, Marina; his gay father, Hal; and Christopher's loyal girlfriend, Tamara -- are pushed to the edge by something new in him that mystifies them all. When he runs away, far into the woods of nothern California, their assumptions about themselves and one another are sorely tested. They might not, they discover, be quite so modern as they once thought. Even the dried seahorses on Marina's windowpane rattle unnervingly as if to announce a time like no other. In precise, lyrical language, A Seahorse Year explores love at the limits of bearability. It is wise about the things we do out of love that often have both redemptive and disastrous consequences. Difficult questions that have all the tough complexity of real life are asked; devastating truths are revealed in the answers. Michael Cunningham described Tea as "pure and profound, a ravishing book." A Seahorse Year is an even richer, more luminous achievement.
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- Bookseller
- West Side Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1175
- Title
- A Seahorse Year
- Author
- D'Erasmo, Stacey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0618439234
- ISBN 13
- 9780618439232
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- U. S. A.
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- 0618439234
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Fiction;
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About the Seller
West Side Books
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Modesto, California
About West Side Books
West Side Books specializes in signed first editions, most of which are also first printings. The majority of our books are hardbacks in the following categories: Mystery/Suspense, Fantasy, General Fiction, Science Fiction, and Non-Fiction.
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