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pp 414 hardback with paper dust jacket in very good condition; clean pages - inside front cover there is writing to someone; very light edgewear; white board with silver title on black spine-imprint of a cloud on boardThe sky is falling for the Caspers, a family of cowards: for Jonathan, a paleontologist, searching in vain for a prehistoric giant squid; for his wife, Madeline, an animal behaviorist with a failing experiment; for their daughter, Amelia, a disappointed teenage revolutionary; for her younger sister, Thisbe, on a frustrated search for God; and for grandfather Henry, who wants to disappear, limiting himself to eleven words a day, then ten, then nine Each fears uncertainty and the possibilities that accompany it. When Jonathan and Madeline suddenly decide to separate, this nuclear family is split, each member forced to confront his or her own cowardice, finally coming to appreciate the cloudiness of the modern age.
Title: The Great Perhaps: A Novel
Categories: Contemporary, American Literature,
Edition: 1st
Publisher: US, W. W. Norton & Company: 2009
ISBN Number: 0393067963
ISBN Number 13: 9780393067965
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Type: Hardcover
Size: 5.8 x 1.4 x 8.6 inches
Seller ID: PGB738
Keywords: Families--Fiction, Cowardice--Fiction