Ballantine. Very Good. 2009. Trade Paperback. 9780345518736 Pages are clean, tight and bright. Bookstore's stamped address appears on the inside of the rear cover. .

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Friendship, loyalty, and love lie at the heart of Meg Waite Clayton's beautifully written, poignant, and sweeping novel of five women who, over the course of four decades, come to redefine what it means to be family.For thirty-five years, Frankie, Linda, Kath, Brett, and Ally have met every Wednesday at the park near their homes in Palo Alto, California. Defined when they first meet by what their husbands do, the young homemakers and mothers are far removed from the Summer of Love that has enveloped most of the Bay Area in 1967. These "Wednesday Sisters" seem to have little in common: Frankie is a timid transplant from Chicago, brutally blunt Linda is a remarkable athlete, Kath is a Kentucky debutante, quiet Ally has a secret, and quirky, ultra-intelligent Brett wears little white gloves with her miniskirts. But they are bonded by a shared love of both literature--Fitzgerald, Eliot, Austen, du Maurier, Plath, and Dickens--and the Miss America Pageant, which they watch together every year.As the years roll on and their children grow, the quintet forms a writers circle to express their hopes and dreams through poems, stories, and, eventually, books. Along the way, they experience history in the making: Vietnam, the race for the moon, and a women's movement that challenges everything they have ever thought about themselves, while at the same time supporting one another through changes in their personal lives brought on by infidelity, longing, illness, failure, and success.Humorous and moving, The Wednesday Sisters is a literary feast for book lovers that earns a place among those popular works that honor the joyful, mysterious, unbreakable bonds between friends.From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: BookTown USA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 6008197
Title: The Wednesday Sisters
Author: Clayton, Meg Waite
Format/Binding: Trade Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 034551873X
ISBN 13: 9780345518736
Publisher: Ballantine
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2009
Bookseller catalogs: Romance;

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Trade Paperback: Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.