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By the age of 32, Ronit has left London and transformed her life. She has become a cigarette-smoking, wise-cracking, New York career woman, who is in love with a married man.But when Ronit's father dies she is called back into the very different world of her childhood, a world she thought she had left far behind.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and prestige.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Naomi Alderman
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Not Avail, Penguin Group UK
- Editions
- 18
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780241984802
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