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At age sixty-five, retired anthropologist Stella Brentwood buys a cottage in Somerset, England, and slowly acquires neighbors, a dog, and a professional curiosity about the country village where she intends to settle and put down roots for the first time. She has spent her life studying communities of people--their families, social structures, how they welcome outsiders into their midst-remaining an observer, privileged to share in their intimate life but not obliged, and finally unwilling to tie herself closely to any lover, friend, or social group. In Somerset, Stella once again finds an opportunity to become part of the web of relationship…
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- ISBN: 978-0-06-092972-5
- EAN: 9780060929725
- Produktnummer: 19881818
- Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Gattung: Novel
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B12.8 cm x D1.9 cm 175 g
- Gewicht: 175
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Penelope Lively was born in 1933 in Cairo and spent her childhood there, moving to England in the last year of World War II. She has written many prizewinning novels and collections of short stories for both adults and children, including the novel Moon Tiger, which won England's prestigious Booker Prize in England in 1987, and most recently Heat Wave. She lives in Oxfordshire and London.
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