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Lily is the aging maiden aunt of a large family, all of whom come to visit her during the summer of 1989--and refuse to leave. The family drama that is played out over the space of this unusually long visit is witnessed by a graduate student doing research on WASP-y privileged worlds like the one Lily's family inhabits--or did long ago. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
| Size | | Length: | 481 pages | | Height: | 9.8 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 28.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"A witty debut....Charming, old-fashioned, and leisurely...."
Kirkus Reviews (12/15/2002)
"[A] graceful, intelligent and very funny chronicle of a large extended family....Is it without flaws? Well, the plot is mild and ambling, and the darker emotions are kept strictly offstage, but plot and angst are not the point. The point is the revelation of a particular kind of life, and at that the book succeeds brilliantly....Nancy Clark shows us, with grace and humor, that any tribe can be enthralling when revealed, in all its eccentricities and specificities, by such an informed, appreciative and affectionate observer."
New York Times Book Review - Roxana Robinson (03/09/2003)
"Clark knows that our lives, in all their mundane, repetitive banality, feel epic to us. Her wonderful tone, her marvelous use of language, communicate both her characters' skewed sense of eminence and urgency and her own tender authorial amusement that throws into relief their all-too-human lack of perspective."
Bookforum - Darcy Cosper
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