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The Vacationers
by Emma Straub
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1594631573
- ISBN 13
- 9781594631573
- Seller
-
Springfield, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
1st ed. / 1st printing. VG book / VG DJ. Used copy though possibly unread, mild bumping to lower spine, else very tight and clean textblock and boards with full numberline. DJ has only light shelfwear, no tears or chipping and 26.95 price intact. Not remaindered. Nice.
Synopsis
An irresistible, deftly observed novel about the secrets, joys, and jealousies that rise to the surface over the course of an American family’s two-week stay in Mallorca. For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration: Franny and Jim are observing their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary, and their daughter, Sylvia, has graduated from high school. The sunlit island, its mountains and beaches, its tapas and tennis courts, also promise an escape from the tensions simmering at home in Manhattan. But all does not go according to plan: over the course of the vacation, secrets come to light, old and new humiliations are experienced, childhood rivalries resurface, and ancient wounds are exacerbated. This is a story of the sides of ourselves that we choose to show and those we try to conceal, of the ways we tear each other down and build each other up again, and the bonds that ultimately hold us together. With wry humor and tremendous heart, Emma Straub delivers a richly satisfying story of a family in the midst of a maelstrom of change, emerging irrevocably altered yet whole.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Backwater Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- biblio252
- Title
- The Vacationers
- Author
- Emma Straub
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First ed., First printing
- ISBN 10
- 1594631573
- ISBN 13
- 9781594631573
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2014
- Pages
- 292
- Keywords
- First Edition
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Backwater Books
Biblio member since 2015
Springfield, Missouri
About Backwater Books
Terms of sale agreed. All books will be securely boxed for shipping. Collectible books from a primarily personal collection and described for such. Love my books, and would probably do a rehoming interview if I could. Please feel free to contact me via the provided email address for any questions, photo or additional photo requests, etc.
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- Chipping
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- Shelfwear
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