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A perfectly good family [a novel]
Record details
- ISBN: 9780061239496 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0061239496 (pbk.)
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277, 16 p. ; 21 cm. - Edition: 1st Harper Perennial ed.
- Publisher: New York ; Toronto : HarperPerennial, c2007.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A previous edition of this book was published in Great Britain in 1996 by Faber and Faber."--T.p. verso. Subtitle from cover. |
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| Subject: | Inheritance and succession -- North Carolina -- Fiction Brothers and sisters -- Fiction Sibling rivalry -- Fiction North Carolina -- Fiction |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Nakusp Public Library | FIC SHR (Text) | 35160000633751 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
"Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother moves into "his" house as well, it's war. Each heir wants the house. Yet to buy the other out, two siblings must team against one. Just as in girlhood, Corlis is torn between allying with the decent but fearful youngest and the iconoclastic eldest, who covets his legacy to destroy it. A Perfectly Good Family is a stunning examination of inheritance, literal and psychological: what we take from our parents, what we discard, and what we are stuck with, like it or not"--P. [4] of cover. - Blackwell North Amer
Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother moves into "his" house as well, it's war.
Each heir wants the house. Yet to buy the other out, two siblings must team against one. Just as in girlhood, Corlis is torn between allying with the decent but fearful youngest and the iconoclastic eldest, who covets his legacy to destroy it. A Perfectly Good Family is a stunning examination of inheritance, literal and psychological: what we take from our parents, what we discard, and what we are stuck with, like it or not.
