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Back When We Were Grownups

by Anne Tyler
RM38.00 MYR
Back When We Were Grownups
Back When We Were Grownups

A grown-up life, reconsidered

Anne Tyler follows a 53-year-old woman in midlife crisis, looking back to when, at nineteen, she married a widower. With him came three daughters, a large house, and a business— the life she now finds herself reassessing.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Back When We Were Grownups

by Anne Tyler
RM38.00 MYR
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ISBN: 9780345446862
Authors: Anne Tyler
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Related Collections: Contemporary, Drama, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Feminism, Theatre, Literature, Literary Criticism

Description

Een 53-jarige vrouw zit in een midlife-crisis en blikt terug op de tijd dat ze als 19-jarige trouwde met een weduwnaar met drie dochters, een groot huis en een bedrijf.
 

A grown-up life, reconsidered

Anne Tyler follows a 53-year-old woman in midlife crisis, looking back to when, at nineteen, she married a widower. With him came three daughters, a large house, and a business— the life she now finds herself reassessing.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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