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001			ASIN0375412530
003			OSt
005			20110106102635.0
008			110106s2001 xxu eng d
020			_a0375412530 (hardcover) _c$25.00
020			_a9780375412530 (hardcover)
040			_cKIM
050			_aPS 3570 _b.T95 2001
082	0	4	_a813.54
100	1		_aTyler, Anne. _93304
245	1	0	_aBack when we were grownups : _ba novel / _cAnne Tyler.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_a[S.l.] : _bKnopf, _c2001.
300			_a288 p. ; _c25 cm.
500			_aDeckle Edge.
520			_a"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 impostor 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 divorcé 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 un-awares 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 beguiling, funny, and deeply moving novel. As always with Anne Tyler’s novels, once we enter her world it is hard to leave. But in Back When We Were Grownups she so sharpens our perceptions and awakens so many untapped feelings that we come away not only refreshed and delighted, but also infinitely wiser.
856	4	0	_3Amazon.com _uhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375412530/chopaconline-20
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