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The Girl Who Stopped Swimming (Wheeler Hardcover)
by Joshilyn Jackson
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1597226599
- ISBN 13
- 9781597226592
- Seller
-
Steubenville, Ohio, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Wheeler Publishing, April 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Large Print Edition. 1st edition/ 1st printing. No marks or writing observed in the text. Appears unread. Cover is clean and in great condition with very minor shelf wear to corners. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.
Synopsis
Laurel Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty, whether she's helping her mother make sure the literal family skeleton stays in the closet or turning scraps of fabric into nationally acclaimed art quilts. Her estranged sister Thalia, an impoverished Actress with a capital A, is her polar opposite, priding herself on exposing the lurid truth lurking behind middle class niceties. While Laurel's life seems neatly on track--a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, and a lovely home in suburban Victorianna--everything she holds dear is suddenly thrown into question the night she is visited by the ghost of a her 13-year old neighbor Molly Dufresne. The ghost leads Laurel to the real Molly floating lifelessly in the Hawthorne's backyard pool. Molly's death is inexplicable--an unseemly mystery Laurel knows no one in her whitewashed neighborhood is up to solving. Only her wayward, unpredictable sister is right for the task, but calling in a favor from Thalia is like walking straight into a frying pan protected only by Crisco. Enlisting Thalia's help, Laurel sets out on a life-altering journey that triggers startling revelations about her family's guarded past, the true state of her marriage, and the girl who stopped swimming.Richer and more rewarding than any story Joshilyn Jackson has yet written, yet still packed with Jackson's trademarked outrageous characters, sparkling dialogue, and defiantly twisting plotting, THE GIRL WHO STOPPED SWIMMING is destined both to delight Jackson's loyal fans and capture a whole new audience.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookmarx Bookstore
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58508
- Title
- The Girl Who Stopped Swimming (Wheeler Hardcover)
- Author
- Joshilyn Jackson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1597226599
- ISBN 13
- 9781597226592
- Publisher
- Wheeler Publishing
- Date Published
- April 2008
- Pages
- 439
Terms of Sale
Bookmarx Bookstore
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Bookmarx Bookstore
Biblio member since 2023
Steubenville, Ohio
About Bookmarx Bookstore
We are a small independent bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio, with a smattering of everything but a special love for the Catholic, Classic, and Literary.
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