About this title: "Home" is the unnamed goal in this collection whose characters are somehow always searching for that ideal state of calm and warmth and perfect tolerance. Of course, that dream is quite unlike the hard world of Providence, where these dreamers really live - a world of wary neighbours and vague priests, of flinty teachers, of parents distant and irascible. Hungering for some better place, these sons and daughters of New England follow very different paths, and make very different - often shattering - discoveries. In "The Raft", a ten-year-old boy struggles with the shock of his father's leap ...
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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780801848537ISBN:0801848539
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Softcover, as shown--APPEARS NOT READ, only minor cover shopwear. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 136 pp. Johns Hopkins, Poetry & Fiction. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers! Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780801848520ISBN:0801848520
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Signed by Author Jean McGarry Home at Last This is a signed and inscribed on title page, first edition of Home at Last. The book published in 1994 by The John Hopkins University Press: Baltimore is in fine condition with dust jacket in fine condition. The author has inscribed the book "Dearest Anita and Jordan, I'd love to say "You're just like family to me, " but given my particular case would that be a compliment? Hope this book is as good as "Three Godfathers" Love, Jean ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: hardcover
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
Date Published: (1994)
Description: Fine dust jacket. The hardcover issue of this collection of stories. Inscribed by McGarry to another writer and his wife: "A taste of the R.I. mainland. We're going to miss you. " Fine in a fine dust jacket. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13:9780801848537ISBN:0801848539
Description: Good. 0801848539 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
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