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The Vacationers: A Novel
by Emma Straub
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1594631573
- ISBN 13
- 9781594631573
- Seller
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Templeton, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Riverhead Books, 2014. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Not Signed. 1st Edition. Penguin, New York, 2014. Hard Cover. First Edition/First Printing. Book Condition: Near Fine due to minuscule bottom corner pushes . Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine due to tiny crumples at spine ends. It does not appear to have been read..
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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- Bookseller
- Winding Road Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000236
- Title
- The Vacationers: A Novel
- Author
- Emma Straub
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1594631573
- ISBN 13
- 9781594631573
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- Fiction Literary
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