New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pantheon Books, 1997. Slate paper over boards with gitl print on spine; 326 pages; tight binding; square and sharp corners; no exsternal or internal marks; no chips, tears, or creases in the book or on the dust jacket; text block is bright and clean.. First Edition - First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

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With the same brilliant combination of humor and warmth that marked Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, her two bestselling works of nonfiction, Anne Lamott now gives us an exuberant richly absorbing portrait of a family for whom the joys and sorrows of everyday life are magnified under the glare of the unexpected.The Fergusons make their home in a small California town where life is supposed to resemble paradise, but for thirteen-year-old Rosie (last seen in Lamott's beloved novel Rosie), reality is a bit harsher. Her mother, a recovering alcoholic, is still beset by grief over the early death of her first husband. Rosie's stepfather is a struggling writer plagued by doubts and hilarious paranoia. And Rosie, aching in the bloom of young womanhood and obsessed with tournament tennis, finds that her athletic gifts, initially a source of triumph, now place her in peril, as a shadowy man who stalks her from the bleachers seems to be developing an obsession of his own.Written with enormous emotional honesty, inhabited by superbly realized characters, riotously funny and wonderfully suspenseful, Crooked Little Heart is Anne Lamott writing at the height of her considerable powers.From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: Riverhorsebooks (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: TI0003991
Title: Crooked Little Heart
Author: Lamott, Anne
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition - First Printing
ISBN 10: 0679435212
ISBN 13: 9780679435211
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Place of Publication: New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1997
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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