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"This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in her powerful, inspiring memoir. A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster.
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Contemporary, contemplative, character-led and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Elizabeth McCracken
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 184
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Co., Little, Brown and Company
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316027670
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