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"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two...
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Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn't bother him. But he is troubled by his inability to remember anything about the first night that he moved into his new, spare, and efficient condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore. All he knows when he wakes up the next day in the hospital is that his head is sore and bandaged.
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Vintage Espa�nol
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2011
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Español
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A los sesenta y un a�nos, Liam Pennywell acaba de perder su trabajo. Lejos de entristecerse por algo que nunca le interes�o realmente, lo toma como una se�nal. Es justo lo que necesita para adentrarse en la �ultima fase de su vida, en la que puede recapitular y prepararse para el final. Entusiasmado por primera vez en a�nos, decide mudarse a un apartamento m�as sencillo y acorde con su nueva vida. Sin embargo, en su primera noche all�i...