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Dupont Circle
by Kafka-Gibbons, Paul
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- used: good
- ISBN 10
- 0395869323
- ISBN 13
- 9780395869321
- Seller
-
Binghamton, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Houghton Mifflin, 2001. Hardcover. used: good. 6x1x8. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Domestic fictionGood condition, some wear to edges and dustjacket, bumped tips, prompt shipping with tracking
Synopsis
DUPONT CIRCLE is a vivacious comedy of marriage and romance in all its contemporary guises. Set in the nation's capital, it revolves around the city's busy intersection where old meets young, gay meets straight, rich meets poor, and past meets present. The patrician Allard family has lived in the Dupont Circle neighborhood for generations. At the head of the family is the eminent judge Bailey Allard, whose character recalls the colorful, iconoclastic figure of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. When Bailey's grown children insist that their father find a housemate to share the lonely family mansion, a young law student, Louisa Robbins, answers his ad. The May-December romance that ensues is as much a surprise to Bailey and Louisa as it is to the family. Love and family intersect elsewhere for Bailey, too: the District Court of Appeals, where he presides, is faced with a case that has particular relevance for the Allards. Two men legally married in one state have been denied married status in the District of Columbia. Bailey's own son, Jon, is all but married to his companion, Peter. Bailey is determined to do legal battle to ensure his son's future happiness. As the Los Angeles Times said of Kafka-Gibbons's prizewinning LOVE <ENTER>, DUPONT CIRCLE is a "sprightly, intelligent romance that has all the features of hip contemporary writing, yet engages in precisely the ways that the best traditional fiction does." With great charm and goodwill, DUPONT CIRCLE engages both the issues and the heart.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Robinson Street Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Lower2AIB026
- Title
- Dupont Circle
- Author
- Kafka-Gibbons, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- used: good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0395869323
- ISBN 13
- 9780395869321
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- 6x1x8
- Keywords
- Women law students-~Same-sex marriage--~Fathers and sons--F~Gay couples--Fictio~Gay men--Fiction~Judges--Fiction~Dupont Circle (Wash~D.C.)--Fiction~
- X weight
- 15 oz
Terms of Sale
Robinson Street Books, IOBA
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About the Seller
Robinson Street Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2003
Binghamton, New York
About Robinson Street Books, IOBA
We have been selling books for over 30 years via catalog and lists, as well as open shops. We closed our last open shop in 2003 and now operate out of our warehouse, which contains 500,000 books, journals, periodicals from the 16th Century to the present. We sell on-line as well as via lists and catalogs. We buy collections, accumulations, excess unneeded donations/duplicates, from Museums and Libraries for cash or credit. We have one of the largest collections of offprints in zoology, Botany, Molecular biology available for sale in the world
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