Plume, February 2008. Trade . Very Good. Very Good Softcover. Light shelfwear to covers. Pages clean and tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned, independent book shop since 1984.

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Read Susan Breen's posts on the Penguin Blog. A witty, honest, and hugely entertaining story for anyone who loves books, or has a difficult mother. And, let’s face it, that’s practically everybody . . . On paper, Arabella Hicks seems more than qualified to teach her fiction class on the Upper West Side: she’s a writer herself; she’s passionate about books; she’s even named after the heroine in a Georgette Heyer novel. On the other hand, she’s thirty-eight, single, and has been writing the same book for the last seven years. And she has been distracted recently: on the same day that Arabella teaches her class she also visits her mother in a nursing home outside the city. And every time they argue. Arabella wants the fighting to stop, but, as her mother puts it, “Just because we’re family, doesn’t mean we have to like each other.” When her class takes a surprising turn and her lessons start to spill over into her weekly visits, she suddenly finds she might be holding the key to her mother’s love and, dare she say it, her own inspiration. After all, as a lifelong lover of books, she knows the power of a good story.

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Bookseller: Jane Addams Book Shop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 272878
Title: The Fiction Class
Author: Susan Breen
Format/Binding: Trade
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0452289106
ISBN 13: 9780452289109
Publisher: Plume
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: February 2008
Pages: 296

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Shelfwear: Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.