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Drowning Ruth
by Christina Schwarz
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0747264651
- ISBN 13
- 9780747264651
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Headline, UK, 2001. Reprint. Medium Trade Paperback. Very Good. Medium Trade Paperback. 276 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Headline, UK, 2001. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Apparently buckling under the strain of caring for wounded soldiers, Amanda retreats from her nursing job at the close of the First World War to her family's farm on a lake in rural Wisconsin, hoping that life with her beloved sister Mattie and her niece, three-year-old Ruth, will restore her. But very soon Amanda comes to see that her old home is no refuge; she has carried her troubles with her.Months later, Mattie's husband Carl returns from the war to find his wife mysteriously drowned and his daughter being raised by prickly and possessive Amanda. What happened the night Mattie died? For years the consequences of that event reverberate, and the truth, when it is finally revealed, is both dramatic and extraordinarily moving. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Drama & Sagas; ISBN: 0747264651. ISBN/EAN: 9780747264651. Inventory No: 22080157.. 9780747264651
Synopsis
Drowning Ruth is a 2000 bestselling novel by Christina Schwarz. It was chosen as a selection for Oprah's Book Club in September 2000. It is also being made into a movie.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22080157
- Title
- Drowning Ruth
- Author
- Christina Schwarz
- Format/Binding
- Medium Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0747264651
- ISBN 13
- 9780747264651
- Publisher
- Headline
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; Drowning Ruth
- Bookseller catalogs
- Drama & Sagas; Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Manyhills Books
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Traralgon, Victoria
About Manyhills Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 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...
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