| Description |
306 pages ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
The Australian Women's Weekly book club |
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Australian Women's Weekly book club
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| Contents |
Common knowledge -- Dandelion clock -- The anxiety committee -- Whispering hope -- Heidi's Grandfather -- Killing the frog by degrees -- The world won't end -- A cooler spot on the pillow -- Longtime child -- The man who was a dessert |
| Summary |
Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in the Polish neighbourhood of Baltimore, he was smitten. And in the heat of World War II fervour, they were hastily wed. But they never should have married. Pauline, impulsive and impractical, tumbles hit-or-miss through life; Michael, plodding, cautious, and judgemental, proceeds deliberately. In time their foolish quarrels take their toll. A 17-year-old daughter disappears, and some years later this fractious pair is forced to rescue her little boy, named Pagan, from drug-infested San Francisco, to take him home and raise him |
| Notes |
306 P. ; 24 CM |
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Originally published New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c2004. With new reader's guide |
| Issuing Body |
'The Australian Women's Weekly great read' --Cover |
| Subject |
Summers, Rowena, 1932- Family saga.
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Grandparent and child -- Fiction.
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Marriage -- Fiction.
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Relationships -- Fiction
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Mate selection -- Fiction.
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Married people -- Fiction.
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Marital conflict -- Fiction.
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Grandparent and child -- Fiction.
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Runaway teenagers -- Fiction.
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Grandparent and child.
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Runaway teenagers.
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Marital conflict.
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Married people.
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Mate selection.
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Married people -- United States -- Fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
Baltimore (Md.) -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101801
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Baltimore (Md.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79006530
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| Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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| ISBN |
0701177357 paperback |
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0701177349 |
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0099469596 paperback |
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