Orlando: Harcourt, 2001. 1st ptg.. hardcover. Book: Very Good. 8vo.. 181 pp. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4. Green paper covered boards, stamped in gold on spine. Green dj. No damage or markings noted.

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A Simple Tale is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, a woman born in the Ukraine between the two World Wars, taken by the Germans for slave labor, and eventually relocated as a displaced person to Canada. She and her husband settle in Toronto. They struggle to build a new life there and provide their son Radek with every opportunity. But a gulf widens between mother and son. What of the past is she to preserve, and how to avoid letting its weight burden the present? Maria's story is about the moments of connection and isolation that are, ultimately, common to us all. The Hunters is told by an American academic living in a dreary suburb of London for a summer. Removed from the relationships that ordinarily add structure to life, this scholar soon grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor lives with her mother and their horde of pet rabbits, occupying her days as a caretaker of the elderly. While the narrator researches a book about death, Ridley Wandor's patients all seem to be dying. Is she doing away with them? The narrator constructs Ridley's story from the available clues, only to find that nothing is what it had seemed to be.

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Bookseller: Blue Awning Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 79658
Title: Hunters, The: Two Short Novels
Author: Messud, Claire
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Book: Very Good
Edition: 1st ptg.
ISBN 10: 0151005885
ISBN 13: 9780151005888
Publisher: Harcourt
Place of Publication: Orlando
Date Published: 2001
Size: 8vo.

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