Durable Goods - Hardcover

Berg, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 158547049X ISBN 13: 9781585470495

Publisher: Center Point Pub, 2000

Synopsis

Following her mother's death, Katie, a young girl living on an army base, waits for Dickie Mack to fall in love with her and struggles to understand her distant, violent father. 20,000 first printing. Tour.

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Review:

"Rich . . . timeless."
--"The New Yorker
"RADIANT . . . STARTLING AND DELICATE."
--"The Boston Globe
"Elizabeth Berg writes with humor and a big heart about resilience, loneliness, love and hope. And the transcendence that redeems."
--ANDRE DUBUS
"This quietly told tale will find a place in your soul, and will stay there."
--CHRISTOPHER TILGHMAN

"Rich . . . timeless."
--"The New Yorker
""RADIANT . . . STARTLING AND DELICATE."
--"The Boston Globe
""Elizabeth Berg writes with humor and a big heart about resilience, loneliness, love and hope. And the transcendence that redeems."
--ANDRE DUBUS
"This quietly told tale will find a place in your soul, and will stay there."
--CHRISTOPHER TILGHMAN

“Rich . . . timeless.”
—"The New Yorker
"“RADIANT . . . STARTLING AND DELICATE.”
—"The Boston Globe
"“Elizabeth Berg writes with humor and a big heart about resilience, loneliness, love and hope. And the transcendence that redeems.”
—ANDRE DUBUS
“This quietly told tale will find a place in your soul, and will stay there.”
—CHRISTOPHER TILGHMAN

"Rich . . . timeless."
--"The New Yorker

""RADIANT . . . STARTLING AND DELICATE."
--"The Boston Globe

""Elizabeth Berg writes with humor and a big heart about resilience, loneliness, love and hope. And the transcendence that redeems."
--ANDRE DUBUS

"This quietly told tale will find a place in your soul, and will stay there."
--CHRISTOPHER TILGHMAN

Rich . . . timeless.
"The New Yorker
" RADIANT . . . STARTLING AND DELICATE.
"The Boston Globe
" Elizabeth Berg writes with humor and a big heart about resilience, loneliness, love and hope. And the transcendence that redeems.
ANDRE DUBUS
This quietly told tale will find a place in your soul, and will stay there.
CHRISTOPHER TILGHMAN"

"Rich . . . timeless."
--The New Yorker
"RADIANT . . . STARTLING AND DELICATE."
--The Boston Globe
"Elizabeth Berg writes with humor and a big heart about resilience, loneliness, love and hope. And the transcendence that redeems."
--ANDRE DUBUS
"This quietly told tale will find a place in your soul, and will stay there."
--CHRISTOPHER TILGHMAN

"Rich . . . timeless."
--The New Yorker

"RADIANT . . . STARTLING AND DELICATE."
--The Boston Globe

"Elizabeth Berg writes with humor and a big heart about resilience, loneliness, love and hope. And the transcendence that redeems."
--ANDRE DUBUS

"This quietly told tale will find a place in your soul, and will stay there."
--CHRISTOPHER TILGHMAN

About the Author:

ELIZABETH BERG is the author of twelve novels, including her newest work, The Art of Mending, the New York Times bestsellers Say When, True to Form, Never Change, and Open House, which was an Oprah's Book Club Selection in 2000. Durable Goods and Joy School were selected as ALA Best Books of the Year, and Talk Before Sleep was short-listed for the ABBY award in 1996. The winner of the 1997 New England Booksellers Award for her body of work, she is also the author of a nonfiction work, Escaping into the Open: The Art of Writing True. She lives in Chicago.

About this edition

• Publisher: Center Point Pub
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 158547049X
• ISBN 13: 9781585470495
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248