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Precocious 12-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives inthe hectic New York City of 1940 with her family.Then tragedy strikes--and Lou and her younger brother,Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on theirgreat-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains.Suddenly Lou finds herself coming of age in a newlandscape, making her first true friend, and experiencingadventures tragic, comic, and audacious.
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- David Baldacci
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 401
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan, Chivers Press, Hachette Book Group
- Editions
- 47
- Language
- German, Spanish, Dutch, English
- ISBN
- 9780743208284
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