New York:: Spiegel & Grau, , 2008.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (remainder dot.). First printing. The author's first novel, described as a "withering Silicon Valley satire." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 401 pp.

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A smart, comic page-turner about a Silicon Valley family in free fall over the course of one eventful summer.When Paul Miller's pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she's been waiting years for -- until she learns, via messengered letter, that her husband is divorcing her (for her tennis partner!) and cutting her out of the new fortune. Meanwhile, four hundred miles south in Los Angeles, the Millers' older daughter, Margaret, has been dumped by her newly famous actor boyfriend and left in the lurch by an investor who promised to revive her fledgling post-feminist magazine, Snatch. Sliding toward bankruptcy and dogged by creditors, she flees for home where her younger sister Lizzie, 14, is struggling with problems of her own. Formerly chubby, Lizzie has been enjoying her newfound popularity until some bathroom graffiti alerts her to the fact that she's become the school slut.The three Miller women retreat behind the walls of their Georgian colonial to wage battle with divorce lawyers, debt collectors, drug-dealing pool boys, mean girls, country club ladies, evangelical neighbors, their own demons, and each other, and in the process they become achingly sympathetic characters we can't help but root for, even as the world they live in epitomizes everything wrong with the American Dream. Exhilarating, addictive, and superbly accomplished, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything crackles with energy and intelligence and marks the debut of a knowing and very funny novelist, wise beyond her years.From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller's Inventory #: 53044
Title: ALL WE EVER WANTED WAS EVERYTHING.
Author: Brown, Janelle
Format/Binding: SIGNED hardcover first edition -
Book Condition: Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (remainder dot.)
Jacket Condition: like
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0385524013
ISBN 13: 9780385524018
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date Published: 2008.
LCCN: 2008009237
Keywords: california, silicon valley, ipo, satire, divorce,
Bookseller catalogs: First book or first novel;

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