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The Pilot's Wife
by Shreve, Anita
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- 5/3
- ISBN 10
- 0316789089
- ISBN 13
- 9780316789080
- Seller
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Grove City, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Little Brown and Company, 1998. First edition. 2nd ptng. Hard cover. 5. Fine in good dust jacket. Signed by author. 8vo near as new; DJ shelfworn at spine, corners, otherwise fine Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 304 p. Oprah's Book Club (Hardcover). Audience: General/trade. Shreve's sig on a bookplate. NOT a remainder.
Synopsis
Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious, independent-minded fifteen-year-old daughter; and a happy marriage whose More...occasional dull passages she attributes to the unavoidable deadening of time. As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone - but nothing has prepared her for the late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash. As Kathryn struggles with her grief, she descends into a maelstrom of publicity stirred up by the modern hunger for the details of tragedy. Even before the plane is located in waters off the Irish coast, the relentless scrutiny of her husband's life begins to bring a bizarre personal mystery into focus. Could there be any truth to the increasingly disturbing rumors that he had a secret life?
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Details
- Seller
- B8 Books and Prints
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- Alibris.0000324
- Title
- The Pilot's Wife
- Author
- Shreve, Anita
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - 5
- Jacket Condition
- 3
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. 2nd ptng
- ISBN 10
- 0316789089
- ISBN 13
- 9780316789080
- Publisher
- Little Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1998
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
B8 Books and Prints
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About B8 Books and Prints
B8 Books started after I inherited my grandfather's library. We specialize in antique and vintage books and prints as well as imited edition books and books signed by authors and/or illustrators, especially association copies.
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