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Schine, Cathleen Rameau's Niece Plume 1994 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Slight moisture damage but good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1161532. ISBN #0452271614 / 9780452271616. (keywords: NEW YORK N Y FICTION) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schirach, Ferdinand von Guilt: Stories Knopf 2012 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1017633. ISBN #0307599493 / 9780307599490. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schirach, Ferdinand von Guilt: Stories Knopf 2012 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1017633. ISBN #0307599493 / 9780307599490. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary On a sweltering day in August, a small town drunkenly celebrates its six-hundredth anniversary with a funfair when an anonymous tip leads police to find a young woman brutally beaten, raped, and thrown under the floorboards of the very stage on which her attackers had just played a polka. An eight-member brass band composed of respectable family men with respectable day jobs is charged with the crime. A neophyte defense lawyer, still wet behind the ears and breaking in his attach case, takes on the trial, only to lose his innocence in the process. So begins Guilt, Ferdinand von Schirach s tense, riveting collection of stories based on real crimes he has known. In these brief, succinct tales, von Schirach calls into question the nature of guilt and the toll it takes or fails to take on ordinary people. In The Illuminati, the popular mean crowd at an all-boys boarding school wages a vicious attack against an outsider schoolmate, and ends up accidentally killing the boy s beloved teacher. Attempting to hurdle through a midlife crisis, a housewife begins to steal trivial things no one will miss, an act that gives her a rush and staves off depression in Desire. And in Snow, an old man whose home is used as a way station for a heroin ring agrees to protect the identity of the lead drug runner, who receives his comeuppance in due course. Compassionate and seen with the same cool, controlled eye that propelled Ferdinand von Schirach s debut collection, Crime, onto best-seller lists, Guilt is a stunning follow-up from one of Germany s finest new writers.
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Schmidt, C. W Marta: A novel
Suter 1982 hardcover. First Edition. some tears to jacket. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1171796. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schmidt, Sarah See What I Have Done Atlantic Monthly Press 2017 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1186951. ISBN #0802126596 / 9780802126597. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel Most Beautiful Book in The World: Eight Novellas Europa Editions 2009 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1181462. ISBN #1933372745 / 9781933372747. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel Most Beautiful Book in The World: Eight Novellas Europa Editions 2009 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1181462. ISBN #1933372745 / 9781933372747. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary One of Europe's most popular and best-loved authors, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt captivates the reader with his spirited, buoyant style and enchanting stories that move effortlessly from the everyday to the fantastical. The eight stories in this collection, his first to be published in English, represent some of his best writing and most imaginative storylines: from the love story between Balthazar, wealthy and successful author, and Odette, cashier at a supermarket, to the tale of a barefooted princess; from the moving story of a group of female prisoners in a Soviet gulag to the entertaining portrait of a perennially disgruntled perfectionist. Here are eight contemporary fables, populated by a cast of extravagant and affecting characters, about people in search of happiness. Behind each story lies a simple, if elusive, truth: happiness is often right in front of our eyes, though we may frequently be blind to it.
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Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel Most Beautiful Book in The World: Eight Novellas 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1051023. ISBN #1933372745 / 9781933372747. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel Most Beautiful Book in The World: Eight Novellas 2009 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1051023. ISBN #1933372745 / 9781933372747. (filed under: Fiction ) *
stock image, actual book may vary One of Europe's most popular and best-loved authors, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt captivates the reader with his spirited, buoyant style and enchanting stories that move effortlessly from the everyday to the fantastical. The eight stories in this collection, his first to be published in English, represent some of his best writing and most imaginative storylines: from the love story between Balthazar, wealthy and successful author, and Odette, cashier at a supermarket, to the tale of a barefooted princess; from the moving story of a group of female prisoners in a Soviet gulag to the entertaining portrait of a perennially disgruntled perfectionist. Here are eight contemporary fables, populated by a cast of extravagant and affecting characters, about people in search of happiness. Behind each story lies a simple, if elusive, truth: happiness is often right in front of our eyes, though we may frequently be blind to it.
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Schneider, Robyn The Beginning of Everything Katherine Tegen Books 2013 hardcover. First Edition. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Remainder Mark. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1192167. ISBN #0062217135 / 9780062217134. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schnitzler, Arthur Bertha Garlan Modern Library 1932 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1171255. (keywords: scnitzler Arthur Fiction Bertha Garlan General Classics) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schnitzler, Arthur Little Novels Simon and Schuster 1929 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1169890. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schoemperlen, Diane Forms of Devotion: Stories and Pictures Harpercollins Canada 1998 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1016307. ISBN #0002245663 / 9780002245661. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schoemperlen, Diane Forms of Devotion: Stories and Pictures Harpercollins Canada 1998 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1016307. ISBN #0002245663 / 9780002245661. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Diane Schoemperlen's acclaimed In the Language of Love expanded our expectations of the contemporary novel, using everydaywords to deconstruct a young woman's life and loves. In her new shortstory collection, Forms of Devotion , she again tests the bounds of her craft, creating an arresting and wonderfully readable work that is also a treat for the eye. Forms of Devotion contains eleven stories, each one a brilliant interplay of words andimages. The illustrations, selected by Schoemperlen and depictingalmost every subject imaginable, are wood engravings and line drawingsfrom the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In somecases, she was inspired to write the story after studying theillustrations; in other cases, she wrote the story first, then chose orconstructed the pictures to accompany it. The result is a playful,sometimes surreal and often mysterious juxtaposition of a historicalfascination with anatomy and classical themes with the author'scontemporary exploration of everyday people, places and things. Eachstory is a creative delight, perfectly formed and rich in mischievouswit, irony and multi-layered meaning. The title story, Forms ofDevotion, is a wonderful literary cataloguing of the traits andqualities of the faithful, those who sail off to work, perfectconfident that they will indeed get there: on time, intact. It does notoccur to them that they could just as well be broadsided by a Coca-Coladelivery truck running the red light at the corner of Johnson andMain. Five Small Rooms is an intriguing, spectral journey into thenarrator's imagination, with the reader left wondering, Is it madnessor a murder mystery? In How Deep is the River, the author offers aninnovative, completely compelling take on the ubiquitous high schoolmath problem that begins Train A and Train B are traveling toward thesame bridge from opposite directions Quite different in form, yet alike in their ability to entertain and provoke, the stories in Forms of Devotion show once again that Diane Schoemperlen's voice is as intriguing, fresh and electric as ever.
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Schoonover, Lawrence The Quick Brown Fox hardcover. First Edition. pieces of DJ spine missing. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Acceptable. Tears and damage to jacket. Book #or1030762. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schulberg, Bud Everything That Moves hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1007053. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schulberg, Budd What Makes Sammy Run? hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Lacks Jacket. Book #or1109461. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schulman, Audrey Swimming With Jonah 2000 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1033125. ISBN #0380800861 / 9780380800865. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schulman, Audrey Swimming With Jonah 2000 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1033125. ISBN #0380800861 / 9780380800865. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Swimming with Jonah On a sweltering August morning, Jane Guy steps from an island plane into a strange dangerous world. The awkward, insecure child of a world-renowned physician and a beautiful Bostonian ballerina, she has come to attend Queen's Medical School on a tiny Indonesian island. For an exorbitant enrollment fee, Queen's is willing to accept any American child of privilege who has keen rejected by all normal medical schools. Not bound by American law, the school specializes in motivating problem students -- no matter what the cost to each student. For Jane, given the transgressions of her past, Queen's is her last chance. Surrounded by jungle and sea, Jane is plunged into unrelenting, heat and the psychological abuse of the teaching staff. The truest connection she makes on the island is with another student Keefer. Together they spend their few spare minutes watching as Jonah -- a shark that Keefer keeps captive in an ocean pen -- slowly circles his cage. As days extended into weeks, Jane feels herself changing, retreating deeper into a body and spirit she no longer recognizes. And as an aura of desperation deepens among her peers, Jane's determination to succeed grows. Because failure is the only way off the island, and for Jane, it is not an option. Jane Guy, the awkward, insecure daughter of a world-renowned physician and a beautiful ballerina, has come to a tiny Indonesian island to attend Queen's Medical School--an institution that will accept, for an exorbitant fee, any American child of privilege despite his or her previous academic history. Surrounded by jungle and water, Jane is immediately plunged into unrelenting heat and the psychological abuse of the teaching staff. The truest connection she makes on the island is with Keefer, a sensitive fellow student who keeps a shark he has named Jonah captive in an ocean pen. But as days extend into weeks, Jane Guy feels herself changing, retreating into a body and spirit she can no longer recognize. And as an aura of desperation deepens among her peers, Jane's determination to succeed grows. Because failure is the only way off the island, and for Jane, it is not an option
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Schulz, Bruno; Wieniewski, Celina (translator) Street of Crocodiles Penguin Books 1977 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1196733. ISBN #0140186255 / 9780140186253. (keywords: FICTION) (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schulz, Monte This Side of Jordan Fantagraphics 2009 hardcover. Inscribed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1096129. ISBN #1606992961 / 9781606992968. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schulz, Monte This Side of Jordan Fantagraphics 2009 hardcover. Inscribed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1096129. ISBN #1606992961 / 9781606992968. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A seductive novel of southern lyricism. Monte Schulz's prose novel opens in the spring of 1929, as the 19-year-old consumptive farm boy Alvin Pendergast attends an ill-fated dance marathon he's too sickly to participate in. After a year of his life has been stolen by a sanitarium, Alvin knows he's relapsing, and dreads not only the drudgery of his family's homestead, but a return to the hospital. In this state of mind, an invitation for a late-night slice of pie is too seductive to pass up and before he knows it, Alvin crosses the Mississippi River and finds himself working for a slick con artist named Chester Burke. Alvin is no match for Chester, who's not merely a con man, but a gangster from Chicago, following the bootleg liquor trade through the small towns of America's middle border. With Alvin in tow, Chester's insouciant disregard for life serves him well as he embarks upon a series of bank robberies and senseless murders. All summer long, Chester assumes the role of a dark angel on Judgment day, cleansing the scrolls of those whose sad fortune had drawn them across his path. Too ill to flee, too morally weak to object, Alvin resigns himself to what seems like certain doom somewhere down the road. Fortunately, Alvin finds another companion on his journey, a lonely, eccentric, and grandiloquent dwarf named Rascal, whose own infirmity binds his and the farm boy's destiny together. Drawn deeper and deeper into Chester's murderous frolic, they come across a curious assortment of characters, from small town businessmen and religious kooks to wayward girls and dance contestants, spiritualists and sideshow freaks. Caught between Chester's villainy and Alvin's own physical deterioration, the young farm boy must make a decision: stick with Chester, who would surely kill him at the slightest hint of betrayal, or muster the courage to stake his life on faith in Rascal's clever plan to save them both. Tired of being afraid, Alvin finally grasps the need not only to outwit the gangster but to find another road to travel. What he discovers about the meaning of home offers a solution to escape and freedom. This Side of Jordan is a thoroughly American novel told in the voice of a lost generation hurtling toward the Great Depression, and evokes a long ago America of crowded Main Streets and tourist camps, miles of cornfields, rural church es, and musty parlors. It ends on the fairgrounds of a traveling wagon circus that beckons gangster, farm boy, and dwarf toward a startling resolution, and a hard-fought absolution for the two young, frightened collaborators. The narrative of this novel has the momentum of a freight train, but told in the seductive, rhythmic tradition of Southern lyricism reminiscent of Flannery O'Connor and Truman Capote, and filled with vivid, outsized literary characters. If Jim Thompson and Carson McCullers went on a collaborative bender by kidnapping Holden Caulfield, Perry Smith, and Ignatius J. Reilly, they'd have come up with something like This Side of Jordan .
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Schumacher, Eric God's Hammer : Hakon's Saga Book 1 Creativia 2017 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Slight lean to spine. Book #or1185613. ISBN #1545201161 / 9781545201169. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schumacher, Tony Darkest Hour 2014 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1056814. ISBN #0062339362 / 9780062339362. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schumacher, Tony Darkest Hour 2014 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1056814. ISBN #0062339362 / 9780062339362. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A crackling, highly imaginative thriller debut in the vein of W.E.B. Griffin and Philip Kerr, set in German-occupied London at the close of World War II, in which a hardened British detective jeopardizes his own life to save an innocent soul and achieve the impossible redemption. London, 1946. The Nazis have conquered the British, and now occupy Great Britain, using brutality and fear to control its citizens. John Henry Rossett, a decorated British war hero and former police sergeant, has been reassigned to the Office of Jewish Affairs. He now answers to the SS, one of the most powerful and terrifying organizations in the Third Reich. Rossett is a man accustomed to obeying commands, but he s now assigned a job he did not ask for and cannot refuse: rounding up Jews for deportation, including men and women he s known his whole life. But they are not the only victims, for the war took Rossett s wife and son, and shattered his own humanity. Then he finds Jacob, a young Jewish child, hiding in an abandoned building, who touches something in Rossett that he thought was long dead. Determined to save the innocent boy, Rossett takes him on the run, with the Nazis in pursuit. But they are not the only hunters following his trail. The Royalist Resistance and the Communists want him, too. Each faction has its own agenda, and Rossett will soon learn that none of them can be trusted . . . and all of them are deadly.
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Schwartz, John Burnham Northwest Corner Random House 2011 hardcover. Signed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1034019. ISBN #1400068452 / 9781400068456. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schwartz, John Burnham Northwest Corner Random House 2011 hardcover. Signed by Author. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1034019. ISBN #1400068452 / 9781400068456. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The New York Times Book Review called Reservation Road a triumph, and the novel was universally acclaimed. Now, in a brilliant literary performance by one of our most compelling and compassionate writers, John Burnham Schwartz reintroduces us to Reservation Road s unforgettable characters in a superb new work of fiction that stands magnificently on its own. Northwest Corner is a riveting story about the complex, fierce, ultimately inspiring resilience of families in the face of life s most difficult and unexpected challenges. Twelve years after a tragic accident and a cover-up that led to prison time, Dwight Arno, now fifty, is a man who has started over without exactly moving on. Living alone in California, haunted yet keeping his head down, Dwight manages a sporting goods store and dates a woman to whom he hasn t revealed the truth about his past. Then an unexpected arrival throws his carefully neutralized life into turmoil and exposes all that he s hidden. Sam, Dwight s estranged college-age son, has shown up without warning, fleeing a devastating incident in his own life. In its way, Sam s sense of guilt is as crushing as his father s. As the two men are forced to confront their similar natures and their half-buried hopes for connection, they must also search for redemption and love. In turn, they dramatically transform the lives of the women around them: the ex-wives, mothers, and lovers they have turned to in their desperate attempts to somehow rewrite, outrun, or eradicate the past. Told in the resonant voices of everyday people gripped in the emotional riptide of lived life, Northwest Corner is at once tough and heart-lifting, an urgent, powerful story about family bonds that can never be broken and the wayward roads that lead us back
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Schwartz, John Burnham Reservation Road 1998 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or982105. ISBN #0375402632 / 9780375402630. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schwartz, John Burnham Reservation Road 1998 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or982105. ISBN #0375402632 / 9780375402630. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A riveting novel of feeling and suspense in which grief and punishment become tragically intertwined. At the close of a beautiful summer day near the quiet Connecticut town where they live, the Learner family--Ethan and Grace, their children, Josh and Emma--stop at a gas station on their way home from a concert. Josh Learner, lost in a ten-year-old's private world, is standing at the edge of the road when a car comes racing around the bend. He is hit and instantly killed. The car speeds away. From this moment forward, Reservation Road becomes a harrowing countdown to the confrontation between two very different men. The hit-and-run driver is a small-town lawyer named Dwight Arno, a man in desperate need of a second chance. Dwight is also the father of a ten-year-old boy, who was asleep in the car the night Josh Learner was killed. Now Dwight must decide whether to run from his crime or to pay the price for what he did. Ethan Learner, a respected professor of literature at a small New England college, has seen his orderly world shattered in a single moment, yet persists in the belief that he can find the unknown man who killed his son. Behind their stories are those of eight-year-old Emma, who can't stop thinking her brother's death was her fault, and of Grace, who must find the strength to keep herself and her family together, and to be the mother Emma so badly needs. In a gripping narrative woven from the voices of Ethan, Dwight, and Grace, Reservation Road tells the story of two ordinary families facing an extraordinary crisis--a book that reads like a thriller but opens up a world rich with psychological nuance and emotional wisdom. Reservation Road explores the terrain of grief even as it astonishes with unexpected redemption: powerful and wrenching and impossible to put down.
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Schwartz, John Burnham The Commoner: A Novel Nan A. Talese 2008 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1190357. ISBN #0385515715 / 9780385515719. (filed under: Fiction ) *
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Schwartz, John Burnham The Commoner: A Novel Nan A. Talese 2008 hardcover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1190357. ISBN #0385515715 / 9780385515719. (filed under: Fiction ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary It is 1959 when Haruko, a young woman of good family, marries the Crown Prince of Japan, the heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne. She is the first non-aristocratic woman to enter the longest-running, almost hermetically sealed, and mysterious monarchy in the world. Met with cruelty and suspicion by the Empress and her minions, Haruko is controlled at every turn. The only interest the court has in her is her ability to produce an heir. After finally giving birth to a son, Haruko suffers a nervous breakdown and loses her voice. However, determined not to be crushed by the imperial bureaucrats, she perseveres. Thirty years later, now Empress herself, she plays a crucial role in persuading another young woman a rising star in the foreign ministry to accept the marriage proposal of her son, the Crown Prince. The consequences are tragic and dramatic. Told in the voice of Haruko, meticulously researched and superbly imagined, The Commoner is the mesmerizing, moving, and surprising story of a brutally rarified and controlled existence at once hidden and exposed, and of a complex relationship between two isolated women who, despite being visible to all, are truly understood only by each other. With the unerring skill of a master storyteller, John Burnham Schwartz has written his finest novel yet.
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