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Disobedience  - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Disobedience - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Disobedience  - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Disobedience - 1st Edition/1st Printing

by Hamilton, Jane

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ISBN 10
038550117X
ISBN 13
9780385501170
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New York: Doubleday. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 038550117X . A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket. Signed by author Jane Hamilton directly on the title page; In a future America where women are second-class citizens, sixteen-year-old orphaned Eve is sent to live with the reclusive and powerful Hamilton family. Eve quickly learns that she is not the only female in the compound; there is also sixteen-year-old June, the daughter of the family's gardener. As the three girls get to know each other, they begin to uncover the secrets of the Hamilton family and the society they live in.Eve quickly realizes that she has to be careful who she trusts and that the world is not as black and white as she thought it was. She also starts to question the way that society treats women and decides that she wants to fight for the rights of all women. As the girls start to rebel against the injustices of their society, they quickly learn that they must be careful who they ally themselves with and that there are many secrets that the Hamilton family is willing to keep.; 8vo; Signed by Author .

Synopsis

A young man awaits the consequences of his mother's extramarital affair with a violin-maker, information he discovers when he accidentally stumbles across her e-mailbox. From Jane Hamilton, author of the beloved New York Times bestsellers A Map of the World and The Book of Ruth, comes a warmly humorous, poignant novel about a young man, his mother's e-mail, and the often surprising path of infidelity. Henry Shaw, a high school senior, is about as comfortable with his family as any seventeen-year-old can be. His father, Kevin, teaches history with a decidedly socialist tinge at the Chicago private school Henry and his sister attend. His mother, Beth, who plays the piano in a group specializing in antique music, is a loving, attentive wife and parent. Henry even accepts the offbeat behavior of his thirteen-year-old sister, Elvira, who is obsessed with Civil War reenactments and insists on dressing in handmade Union uniforms at inopportune times. When he stumbles on his mother's e-mail account, however, Henry realizes that all is not as it seems. There, under the name Liza38, a name that Henry innocently established for her, is undeniable evidence that his mother is having an affair with one Richard Polloco, a violin maker and unlikely paramour who nonetheless has a very appealing way with words and a romantic spirit that, in Henry's estimation, his own father woefully lacks. Against his better judgment, Henry charts the progress of his mother's infatuation, her feelings of euphoria, of guilt, and of profound, touching confusion. His knowledge of Beth's secret life colors his own tentative explorations of love and sex with the ephemeral Lily, and casts a new light on the arguments-usually focused on Elvira-in which his parents regularly indulge. Over the course of his final year of high school, Henry observes each member of the family, trying to anticipate when they will find out about the infidelity and what the knowledge will mean to each of them. Henry's observations, set down ten years after that fateful year, are much more than the "old story" of adultery his mother deemed her affair to be. With her inimitable grace and compassion, Jane Hamilton has created a novel full of gentle humor and rich insights into the nature of love and the deep, mysterious bonds that hold families together.

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Bookseller
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Bookseller's Inventory #
18545
Title
Disobedience - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author
Hamilton, Jane
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition
First Edition; First Printing
ISBN 10
038550117X
ISBN 13
9780385501170
Publisher
Doubleday
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2000
Keywords
Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Cons Strang

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