1st edition, 1st printing, Random House hardcover w/ DJ, 1991. Book is VG, w/ clean text, tight binding; edges of boards very lightly color faded. DJ is VG, w/ light edgewear. Free delivery confirmation. Seller Inventory # SKU1014914

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Title: Object Lessons

Publisher: Random House

Publication Date: 1991

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition

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During a pivotal summer, young Maggie Scanlan struggles to deal with the realities of the adult world as she wrestles with the approaching death of her grandfather, parental conflict, and the other trials of her Irish-Italian family

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IMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
"Elaborate and playful...Honest and deeply felt....Here is the Quindlen wit, the sharp eye for the details of class and manners, [and] the ardent reading of domestic lives."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
It is the 1960s, in suburban New York City. Maggie and her family, are in the thrall of her powerful grandfather Jack Scanlan. In the summer of her twelfth year, Maggie is despertately trying to master the object lessons her grandfather fills her head with. But there is too much going on to concentrate. Everything at home is in upheaval, her grandfather is changing, and Maggie is unsure if what she wants is worth having....

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