New York: Panthon Books, 1997 First printing of the stated first edition. Signed by Anne Lamott directly on the title page. Shallow light crimping to spine ends, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.

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With the same brilliant combination of humor and warmth that marked Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, her two bestselling works of nonfiction, Anne Lamott now gives us an exuberant richly absorbing portrait of a family for whom the joys and sorrows of everyday life are magnified under the glare of the unexpected.The Fergusons make their home in a small California town where life is supposed to resemble paradise, but for thirteen-year-old Rosie (last seen in Lamott's beloved novel Rosie), reality is a bit harsher. Her mother, a recovering alcoholic, is still beset by grief over the early death of her first husband. Rosie's stepfather is a struggling writer plagued by doubts and hilarious paranoia. And Rosie, aching in the bloom of young womanhood and obsessed with tournament tennis, finds that her athletic gifts, initially a source of triumph, now place her in peril, as a shadowy man who stalks her from the bleachers seems to be developing an obsession of his own.Written with enormous emotional honesty, inhabited by superbly realized characters, riotously funny and wonderfully suspenseful, Crooked Little Heart is Anne Lamott writing at the height of her considerable powers.From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: Idler Fine Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 004355
Title: Crooked Little Heart
Author: Lamott, Anne
Illustrator: Mimi Jacobs (Author photo); Margorie Anderson
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN 10: 0679435212
ISBN 13: 9780679435211
Publisher: Panthon Books
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1997
Keywords: Fiction, Literature, Women Writers.

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