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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel
by Bender, Aimee
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0385501129
- ISBN 13
- 9780385501125
- Seller
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Kennebunkport, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday, 2010-05-31. First Edition. hardcover. Like New. 5x1x8. Stated FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, full number line starting with "1". Appears to be a book that was shelved, stored, and/or briefly handled but never read. Dust jacket clean and intact in near mint condition with no chipping on edges or price stickers, sticker residue or scars. No markings, tears, corner creases, foxing or other defects noted in text block. Images available on request.. Unconditional money back guarantee.
Synopsis
The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents' attention, bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the cake. She discovers this gift to her horror, for her mother--her cheerful, good-with-crafts, can-do mother--tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes a peril and a threat to Rose. The curse her gift has bestowed is the secret knowledge all families keep hidden--her mother's life outside the home, her father's detachment, her brother's clash with the world. Yet as Rose grows up she learns to harness her gift and becomes aware that there are secrets even her taste buds cannot discern. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake is a luminous tale about the enormous difficulty of loving someone fully when you know too much about them. It is heartbreaking and funny, wise and sad, and confirms Aimee Bender's place as "a writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of language" (San Francisco Chronicle). From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- TangledWebMysteries
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 121790
- Title
- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel
- Author
- Bender, Aimee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385501129
- ISBN 13
- 9780385501125
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2010-05-31
- Size
- 5x1x8
- X weight
- 15 oz
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Kennebunkport, Maine
About TangledWebMysteries
Tangled Web Mysteries and Oddities was started in 1995 as a bookstore in downtown historic Salem, MA, and is now based in beautiful Kennebunkport, Maine. We are a Mother and Daughter run business, and have been selling online since 2001. We specialize in hard to find mystery series, children's books, and other collectible and hard to find titles.
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