- Family, Social life and customs, Homes and haunts, Family relationships
The Texas refinery town of Leechfield, perched on the swampy rim of the Gulf, is famous for mosquitoes and the manufacture of Agent Orange - a place where the only bookstores are religious ones and the restaurants serve only fried food.
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Classical in form, character-led, meticulous and prestige.
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- rawmeticulous
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Mary Karr
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Picador, Penguin Books, Books on Tape, Inc.
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780143035749
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