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""Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." So Anne Tyler opens this irresistible new novel." "The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother. Is she an imposter in her own life? she asks herself. Is it indeed her own life? Or is it someone else's?".
"On the surface, Beck, as she is known to the Davitch clan, is outgoing, joyous, a natural celebrator. Giving parties is, after all, her vocation - something she slipped into even before finishing college, when Joe Davitch spotted her at an engagement party in his family's crumbling nineteenth-century Baltimore row house, where giving parties was the family business. What caught his fancy was that she seemed to be having such a wonderful time.
Soon this large-spirited older man, a divorce with three little girls, swept her into his orbit, and before she knew it she was embracing his extended family plus a child of their own, and hosting endless parties in the ornate, high-ceilinged rooms of The Open Arms.".
"Now, some thirty years, later, after presiding over a disastrous family picnic, Rebecca is caught unawares by the question of who she really is. How she answers it - how she tries to recover her girlhood self, that dignified grownup she had once been - is the story told in this novel."--BOOK JACKET.
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Novela psicológica, Viudas, Fiction, Ficción, Widows, Novela hogareña, Widows -- Fiction, Social life and customs, Entertaining, Self-actualization (Psychology), Fiction, general, Large type books, Psychological fiction, Domestic fiction, Women, Identity, Romans, nouvelles, Femmes d'âge moyenPlaces
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Cuando Eramos Mayores = Back When We Were Grownups
September 1, 2002, Aguilar
Paperback
in Spanish
8420464422 9788420464428
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Back when we were grownups: a novel
2001, Alfred A. Knopf, distributed by Random House, Inc.
in English
- 1st ed.
0375412530 9780375412530
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Een 53-jarige vrouw zit in een midlife-crisis en blikt terug op de tijd dat ze als 19-jarige trouwde met een weduwnaar met drie dochters, een groot huis en een bedrijf.
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