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When Jane unexpectedly encounters her cousin, Martha, in the Galapagos Islands, she feels she finally has the opportunity to talk to her about their deteriorating friendship and find out what it was that caused their once strong bond to end so suddenly. 75,000 first printing. Tour.
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"Crackles with energy, wit and laughter . . . Schine is a great speculator in the commodities of life, a life-scientist hypothesizing madly. She's written a novel that makes feeling good feel like a good thing." Boston Globe
"Schine renders her story with such deftness and humor that the reader can't help but be enchanted . . . A delightful exercise in literary wit, a perfect summer screwball comedy." The New York Times
"A sensual treat . . . Light as a souffle, rich as a sundae, and as satisfying as love." The San Diego Union-Tribune
"Letter perfect . . . An affair to remember, a book you won't forget. Grade: A." Entertainment Weekly
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"We should rejoice in a rare book like The Evolution of Jane . . . A beautifully descriptive travelogue of the Galapagos . . . wrapped around a rollicking family saga tinged with hints of sexual intrigue." Barbara Kingsolver, New York Times Book Review
"Wonderfully ingenious . . . Very funny, very smart." Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Classy, intelligent fun." People
In some mysterious family feud or unintended slight, Jane Barlow Schwartz lost a friend, her cousin and soul mate Martha. Years later, surrounded by the exotic wildlife of the Galapagos, Jane and Martha meet again. Amid the antics of blue-footed boobies and red-lipped batfish, Jane sets off on a quest through her family history to pinpoint the moment when Martha was no longer the Martha she knew, when the happiest part of her life lapsed into extinction. In the process, she ponders instinct, natural selection, and the oddities of evolution that transform us, examining the origin of species alongside the origins of who we come to be.
"Hilarious." Harper s Bazaar
"Crackles with energy, wit and laughter . . . Schine is a great speculator in the commodities of life." Boston Globe
CATHLEEN SCHINE is the author of many novels, most recently The Three Weissmanns of Westport, as well as the international bestseller The Love Letter and Alice in Bed, To the Bird House, She Is Me, and The New Yorkers."
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin (Trade)
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0395826578
- ISBN 13 9780395826577
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages210
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Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. CE5 - A tight, clean, sound copy in light green paper covered boards quarter bound in green cloth with gold lettering and a graphic on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear with some very, very light tape staining on the outside surfaces of the front and back boards plus there are the usual library stamps and labels on the top outside paper edges, the front and back free endpapers, and the title page. The dust jacket only very, very minor overall shelf wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A novel about a women who is obsessed about why her best friend stopped being her best friend. The two are reunited unexpectedly on a tour of the Galapagos. The novel becomes a mating of family saga and natural history as one of the women works to trace back the moment of the split in the friendship while the other examines the origins of species, friendship, and her own life. By the author of "The Love Letter," "Alice in Bed," "To the Birdhouse," and "Rameau's Niece." 210p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. Seller Inventory # SCW11724
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