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Product Description: Ten-year-old Claire adores her brand-new baby sister, but her mother doesn't feel the same. Trapped in the suffocating culture of the small-town South in the early 1960s, Claire's mother tries to cope with her own mental illness and all the expectations placed upon a woman of her class...read more
Paperback:
9780932112965 | Carolina Wren Pr, October 30, 2014, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Ten-year-old Claire adores her brand-new baby sister, but her mother doesn't feel the same.
Paperback:
9780374530877 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 12, 2007, cover price $15.00
9780374505240 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1960, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A back country orphan struggles to defy his uncle's prophesy that he will become a baptist prophet
CD/Spoken Word:
9781441756978 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 15, 2010), cover price $29.95
9781441756961 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 15, 2010), cover price $29.95
Prebinding:
9781435283459 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 22, 2008), cover price $23.00
CD/Spoken Word:
9781441756947 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 15, 2010), cover price $76.00
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781441756930 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 15, 2010), cover price $54.95
Hardcover:
9780395593127 | Ticknor & Fields, September 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Beryl Fonteyn watches her family's craziness from the vantage point of an Osage orange tree until her stepfather draws her into his manipulative schemes
Paperback:
9780385340977 | Reprint edition (Dial Pr, October 30, 2007), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: From the vantage point of the branches of an Osage orange tree, Beryl Fonteyn watches her family's craziness unfold, until her stepfather draws her into his manipulative schemes.
9781880909478 | 1 reprint edition (Baskerville Pub, June 1, 1996), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Perched amid the leaves of the Osage orange tree in her stepfatherâs backyard, Beryl Fonteyn observes the life around herâMamaâs desperate attempts to gain Jackâs approval by writing her novel, which he mercilessly critiques; her brother Stevieâs unhealthy fascination with acting out events from the Bible; and Jackâs obsession with his beesâall the while imagining that her runaway father will one day return.
9780816154234 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, February 1, 1993), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Beryl Fonteyn watches her family's craziness from the vantage point of an Osage orange tree until her stepfather draws her into his manipulative schemes
Hardcover:
9780786203765 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, April 1, 1995), cover price $20.95
9781561450022 | Peachtree Pub Ltd, October 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Struggling to deal with grief for his late wife, Sam Peck, an old man, is consoled by a mysterious white dog that appears after her death
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9780743458047 | Washington Square Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $6.99
9780671883652 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, December 1, 1993), cover price $5.50 | About this edition: Sam Peek, an elderly farmer mourning the death of his beloved wife of fifty-seven years, discovers a mysterious white dog that seems invisible to everyone but himself
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9781561450695 | Peachtree Pub Ltd, October 1, 1992, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A moving story of love, grief, and coming to terms with death.
Paperback:
9781860465543 | Harvill Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $55.01
9781860464232 | Harvill Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $55.01
9780679772583 | Vintage Books, February 1, 1997, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Pregnant with her second child, Martha King finds her marriage to lawyer Austin King more and more frustrating when her husband befriends his young foster cousin, Nora, and, in the process, unwittingly jeopardizes his marriage, career, and place in the co
Hardcover:
9780399143311 | Putnam Pub Group, June 1, 1998, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: When the death of her mother leaves teenaged Kate a wealthy orphan, an uncle and two cousins she had not known existed appear to lead her life in an unexpected direction
Hardcover:
9780679439820 | Pantheon Books, January 1, 1996, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The shattered lives of three generations of a Southern family center around Harrison Durrance, a magnetic man who thrives on the danger and heroism of World War II combat but who loses himself, sabotages his career, and brutalizes his family in the peacethat follows
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9780679758365 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, May 6, 1997), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: The shattered lives of three generations of a Southern family center around Harrison Durrance, a magnetic man who thrives on the danger and heroism of World War II combat but who loses himself, sabotages his career, and brutalizes his family in the peacethat follows
Hardcover:
9780879235697, titled "All Set About With Fever Trees and Other Stories" | David R Godine Pub, July 1, 1985, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Set mostly in the American South, these seven stories convincingly depict the bizarre and often strained relations between members of unconventional and eccentric families
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9780820317755 | Univ of Georgia Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $24.95
Hardcover:
9780679426219 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1994, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Members of a Southern family, a young girl, her state trooper father, two sets of grandparents, her runaway mother, and their neighbors and friends struggle to cope with the child's incurable disease
Paperback:
9780684801049 | Reprint edition (Scribner Paperback Fiction, February 1, 1995), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: The author of Heading West and Beast of the Southern Wild and Other Stories returns with a poignant, powerful novel of a small town in the tradition of Faulkner, O'Connor, and Welty.
Hardcover:
9780871524843 | Reprint Co, September 1, 1994, cover price $35.00
Hardcover:
9780816151660 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, October 1, 1991), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Eleanor Glass, a twice-married artist in her mid-thirties, finds her concern for those around her interferes with her own life, in a saga of twenty-five years in the lives of members of the Glass family of South Carolina
9780688095819 | William Morrow & Co, June 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Eleanor Glass, a twice-married artist in her mid-thirties, finds her concern for those around her interferes with her own life, in a saga of twenty-five years in the lives of members of the Glass family of South Carolina
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9780345369932 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, April 1, 1992), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Painter Eleanor Glass finds her relationships with her husband, Will, her ex-mother-in-law, Fitz, her aging father, Henry, and her ever-optimistic mother, Cora Ruth, complicated by the cold realities of the world.
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9780879234485 | Reprint edition (David R Godine Pub, September 1, 1983), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Pregnant with her second child, Martha King finds her marriage to lawyer Austin King more and more frustrating
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