| Sea Glass Contributor(s): Shreve, Anita (Author) |
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ISBN: 0316733733 ISBN-13: 9780316733731 Publisher: Little Brown and Company OUR PRICE: $41.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2002 Annotation: Everywhere hailed for its quirkiness, its hilarity, its charm, "Pasquale's Nose" tells the story of a New York City lawyer who runs away to a small Etruscan village with his wife and new baby, and discovers a community of true eccentrics -- warring bean growers, vanishing philosophers, a blind bootmaker, a porcupine hunter -- among whom he feels unexpectedly at home. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Family Life - Marriage & Divorce - Fiction | Romance - Historical - 20th Century |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.48" H x 6.31" W x 9.17" (1.99 lbs) 512 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Cultural Region - New England - Geographic Orientation - New Hampshire |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 59709 Reading Level: 5.4 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 14.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With all the narrative power and emotional immediacy that have made her novels acclaimed international bestsellers, Anita Shreve unfolds a richly engaging tale of marriage, money, and troubled times-the story of a pair of young newlyweds who, setting out to build a life together in a derelict beach house on the Atlantic coast, soon discover how threatening the world outside their front door can be. |