Description |
430 pages (large print) ; 23 cm |
Physical Medium |
large print rdafs |
Note |
Regular print version previously published by: Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. |
Summary |
Navigating private spats and embarrassing secrets in their upscale Brooklyn neighborhood, four families seek purpose and meaningful relationships until a raucous party combusts in a maelstrom of ego clashes, taboo desires, and hidden cameras. |
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Welcome to the eclectic Brooklyn neighborhood of Cobble Hill. Ex-groupie Mandy, underwhelmed by motherhood and her current physical state, fakes a debilitating disease to get the attention of her skateboarding, ex-boyband member husband Stuart. He has a crush on the school nurse, Peaches, whose husband Greg wears noise-canceling headphones-- everywhere. A few blocks away Roy, a newly transplanted British novelist, has lost the thread of his next novel... and of marriage to Wendy. Around the corner Tupper, an introverted industrial designer with a warehose full of prosthetic limbs, struggles to pin down his elusive artist wife Elizabeth. Throw in two hormonal teenagers, a ten-year-old pyromaniac, a drug dealer pretending to be a doctor, and a lot of hidden cameras, and you've got a combustible mix of egos, desires, and secrets. -- adapted from back cover |
Subject |
Families -- Fiction.
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Neighborhoods -- Fiction.
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Large type books.
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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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New York (State) -- New York -- Brooklyn. |
Genre |
Large type books.
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Domestic fiction.
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ISBN |
9781643587912 (large print ; hardback : alk. paper) |
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1643587919 (large print ; hardback : alk. paper) |
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