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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
by Bender, Aimee
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385501129
- ISBN 13
- 9780385501125
- Seller
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Cadillac, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday, 2010. Later Printing . Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dj has light edgewear. Light wear. Lightly bumpeed corners. Very light soiling. There are a couple pages that have a tiny tear in edge that does not affect text.
Synopsis
The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents' attention, bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the cake. She discovers this gift to her horror, for her mother--her cheerful, good-with-crafts, can-do mother--tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes a peril and a threat to Rose. The curse her gift has bestowed is the secret knowledge all families keep hidden--her mother's life outside the home, her father's detachment, her brother's clash with the world. Yet as Rose grows up she learns to harness her gift and becomes aware that there are secrets even her taste buds cannot discern. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake is a luminous tale about the enormous difficulty of loving someone fully when you know too much about them. It is heartbreaking and funny, wise and sad, and confirms Aimee Bender's place as "a writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of language" (San Francisco Chronicle). From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Book Nook
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 031530
- Title
- The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
- Author
- Bender, Aimee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0385501129
- ISBN 13
- 9780385501125
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2010
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
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About the Seller
Book Nook
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Cadillac, Michigan
About Book Nook
The Book Nook is a complete bookstore with over 8000 sq. ft. showroom floor offering new, used and rare books from a stock of more than 70,000 volumes. Ken and Cheryl Haysmer, co-owners, have started and operated the store since 1981 in downtown Cadillac, the heart of Michigan. We have a strong speciality in used paperbacks with minors in new and used hardcovers. The store is open from 9:30AM to 5:00PM, Monday through Saturday, year round.
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