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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (304 pages)
ISBN/ISSN
9781429936378 MWT18077757, 1429936371 18077757
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Betty Weissmann has just been dumped by her husband of forty-eight years. Exiled from her elegant New York apartment by her husband's mistress, she and her two middle-aged daughters, Miranda and Annie, regroup in a run-down Westport, Connecticut, beach cottage. In Schine's playful and devoted homage to Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, the impulsive sister is Miranda, a literary agent entangled in a series of scandals, and the more pragmatic sister is Annie, a library director, who feels compelled to move in and watch over her capricious mother and sister
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