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008 990322t19991999nyu 000 1 eng
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020 $a188328516X (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm41086674
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100 1 $aYglesias, Helen.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80139753
245 14 $aThe girls /$cHelen Yglesias.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aHarrison, N.Y. :$bDelphinium Books ;$aNew York :$bDistributed by HarperCollinsPublishers,$c[1999], ©1999.
300 $a213 pages ;$c20 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"In her first novel in a dozen years, the author of How She Died and Sweetsir gives us four grand old ladies, sisters, each unique and indelibly real, in a poignant and very funny story about the last American taboos, old age and dying."--BOOK JACKET.
520 8 $a"As the novel opens, Jenny, the youngest at eighty, has flown down to Miami - that gaudy, pastel-hued haven of the elderly - to look after her two failing oldest sisters: Eva, ninety-five, always the family mainstay, and Naomi, ninety, who is riddled with cancer but still has her tart tongue and her jet-black head of hair. The fourth sister, Flora, has jet-black hair too, straight out of the bottle, but no head for the hard decisions facing Eva and Naomi.
520 8 $aAn energetic eighty-five, Flora spends her time dating ("He's mad about me, I only hope he can get it up!") and making the rounds of the retirement homes with her standup routine, the Sandra Bernhard of the senior set."--BOOK JACKET. "The Girls gives us these four full-if-wrinkled-fleshed woman with all their complaints and foibles, their self-absorption and downright orneriness, their unquenchable humor and immense, immense courage."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aSisters$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111400
650 0 $aOlder people$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108635
651 0 $aMiami (Fla.)$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107240
655 7 $aHumorous fiction.$2gsafd
655 7 $aDomestic fiction.$2lcgft$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026295
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3575.G48$iG57 1999