Coopoly - Logo
Coopoly - Logo
Only Children
Preview this ebook
Only Children
Member Price: $21.99 (what is it?)
Regular Price: $21.99
   (Quantity: 1)
Availability:
Ebook in EPUB format. Available for immediate download after we receive your order
Publisher:
Open Road Media
DRM:
Watermark
Publication Year:
2012
ISBN-13: 9781453271216
Description:
<DIV><b>In the midst of the Great Depression, two families spend a holiday weekend together&mdash;but while their daughters cement their friendship, their parents tear their marriages apart&#160;</b></div><DIV><BR>Dozing in the back seat of her father&rsquo;s car, Mary Ann Hubbard is the happiest eight-year-old in the country. It&rsquo;s 1935, and she and her parents are going to spend Fourth of July weekend with her headmistress and the Zimmerns, whose daughter Lolly is Mary Ann&rsquo;s best friend from school. While the two little girls frolic in the attic, endowing the rambling old house with wonder, creativity, and imagination, their parents are downstairs, mired in all the pleasure, pain, and occasional childishness of adulthood.</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>As an affair threatens to tear the two families apart, Lolly and Mary Ann retreat farther into playtime. By the end of the weekend, the girls will begin to realize that becoming an adult and growing up can be two very different things.</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alison Lurie including rare images from the author&rsquo;s collection.</div>
Ebook Preview
   (Quantity: 1)