A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories (Puffin Modern Classics)
by Peck, Richard
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0803722907
- ISBN 13
- 9780803722903
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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Synopsis
What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice -- two city slickers from Chicago -- make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town? August 1929: They see their first corpse, and he isn't resting easy. August 1930: The Cowgill boys terrorize the town, and Grandma fights back. August 1931: Joey and Mary Alice help Grandma trespass, poach, catch the sheriff in his underwear, and feed the hungry -- all in one day. And there's more, as Joey and Mary Alice make seven summer trips to Grandma's -- each one funnier than the year before -- in self-contained chapters that readers can enjoy as short stories or take together for a rollicking good novel. In the tradition of American humorists from Mark Twain to Flannery O'Connor, popular author Richard Peck has created a memorable world filled with characters who, like Grandma herself, are larger than life and twice as entertaining.
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- Bookseller
- Arundel Books of Seattle (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005524653
- Title
- A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories (Puffin Modern Classics)
- Author
- Peck, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0803722907
- ISBN 13
- 9780803722903
- Publisher
- Dial Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- COUNTRY LIFE FICTION DEPRESSIONS GRANDPARENTS ILLINOIS CHILDREN S JUVENILE PEOPLE PLACES UNITED STATES GENERAL HISTORICAL 20TH CENTURY FAMILY MULTIGENERATIONAL LIFESTYLES, , , , , , , ,
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