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278 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. This Will Delight You In Its Truth And Honesty About Both The Joys And Complicities Of Friendship
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"In deceptively quiet, guileless prose, she has described the mind numbing routine of child-care and the fraught, complex relations of men and women. Only Margaret Atwood (in "Cat's Eye") has written as knowingly about the frienship between women. Emotionally wrenching, beautifully realized work." --"The New York Times""Extraordinary." --"The Washington Post Book World""An ambitious and original novel...The author's determination not to tie things up is refreshing." --"The Wall Street Journal""This excellent novel weaves the story of a 1921 trolley strike...Mattison is concerned with the small decisions and coincidences that alter the course of our lives. Are they accidents, or impulses born of something deeper? Mattison's observations are so minutely compelling that each one feels like a shiny object, once lost but found unexpectedly." --"The New Yorker""A rich, textured exploration of misfortune and its consequences: a book that will reward any reader willing to go slow and absorb its course." --"Kirkus"
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A book about a trolley strike lent from one friend to the other plays an unexpected role in the long and difficult friendship of Toby Ruben and Deborah Laidlaw.
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- PublisherWilliam Morrow & Co
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0688168248
- ISBN 13 9780688168247
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages278
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. On the first page of The Book Borrower, Toby Ruben and Deborah Laidlaw meet in a city playground where they are looking after their babies. Deborah lends Toby a book, Trolley Girl, a memoir about a 1920s trolley strike and three Jewish sisters, which will disappear and reappear throughout the twenty-two years these women are friends.Toby and Deborah raise children in the seventies while arguing over Patty Hearst and the meaning of life. They find work teaching inner-city day-care workers, a job that leads to conflict between them. Meanwhile, Toby reads the opening chapters of Trolley Girl with interest, but puts the book aside when its story turns tragic.Ten years later we find Toby and Deborah adjunct English instructors at a college. They are mothers of school-age children, stealing time to drink a beer, still deeply involved in their difficult friendship. The borrowed book has long since disappeared from Toby's consciousness.Another decade passes. Toby and Deborah spend a November afternoon hiking down a trail in the park. They never imagine that the outing will be their last together. In the final chapters of the novel, The Trolley Girl reemerges from Toby's dusty bookshelf and unexpectedly helps her come to terms with this agonizing loss. Seller Inventory # 001787
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