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We are all completely beside ourselves
Record details
- ISBN: 9781101595688
- ISBN: 110159568X
- ISBN: 9780399162091
- ISBN: 0399162097
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (310 pages) - Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2013]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Marian Wood book." |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. Electronic books. |
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- Baker & Taylor
Coming of age in middle America, eighteen-year-old Rosemary evaluates how her entire youth was defined by the presence and forced removal of an endearing chimpanzee who was secretly regarded as a family member and who Rosemary loved as a sister. - Baker & Taylor
Coming of age in middle America, 18-year-old Rosemary evaluates how her entire youth was defined by the presence and forced removal of an endearing chimpanzee who was secretly regarded as a family member and who Rosemary loved as a sister. By the best-selling author ofThe Jane Austen Book Club . - Penguin Putnam
The New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club introduces a middle-class American family that is ordinary in every way but one in this novel that won the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize.
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Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. âI was raised with a chimpanzee,â she explains. âI tell you Fern was a chimp and already you arenât thinking of her as my sister. But until Fernâs expulsion...she was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half and I loved her as a sister.â As a child, Rosemary never stopped talking. Then, something happened, and Rosemary wrapped herself in silence.
In We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler weaves her most accomplished work to dateâa tale of loving but fallible people whose well-intentioned actions lead to heartbreaking consequences.
âA gripping, big-hearted book...through the tender voice of her protagonist, Fowler has a lot to say about family, memory, language, science, and indeed the question of what constitutes a human being.ââKhaled HosseiniÂ
