Drowning Ruth
by Christina Schwarz
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/Good
- ISBN 10
- 038549971X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385499712
- Seller
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Mulvane, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Content appears as new, unopened, unread and unblemished with fine black boards in DJ displaying minor surface/edge wear, as shown. Repaired tears at head/heel of spine.
About the book: Oprah Book Club Selection, September 2000: For 19th-century novelists--from Jane Austen to George Eliot, Flaubert to Henry James--social constraint gave a delicious tension to their plots. Yet now our relaxed morals and social mobility have rendered many of the classics untenable. Why shouldn't Maisie know what she knows? It will all come out in family therapy anyway. The vogue for historical novels depends in part on our pleasure in reentering a world of subtle cues and repressed emotion, a time in which a young woman could destroy her life by saying yes to the wrong man. After all, there was no reliable birth control, no divorce, no chance of an independent life or a scandal-free separation. Schwarz is a skillful writer, weaving her grim tale across several decades, always returning to the fateful night of Mathilde's death. Drowning Ruth displays her gift for pacing and her harsh insistence on the right ending, rather than the cheery one. --Regina Marler
Insurance & handling is included free. Extra Charges/Fees apply on Shipments Outside The U.S. and Expedited Shipments. Oversize and/or heavy books may require additional fees. Will advise. Written 9.07.22 #7077-10.2822 Img.8500
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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- Seller
- Eve's Reads (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 7077-10.2822
- Title
- Drowning Ruth
- Author
- Christina Schwarz
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Unstated, Oprah Book Club Selection
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 038549971X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385499712
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- September 2000:
- Pages
- 338
- Keywords
- Novel
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