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Private means: a novel

✍ Scribed by LeFavour, Cree

Publisher: Grove Atlantic; Grove Press
Year: 2020
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 171 KB
Edition: First edition.,First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition
Category: Fiction
City: New York (State)--New York--Upper West Side., Upper West Side (New York, N.Y.
ISBN: 0802148905

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✦ Synopsis

"This feels like an Ian McEwan novel. Served on a bed of Cheever. I can't offer higher praise than that. But written by a woman. Which is even better." -- Elizabeth Gilbert

Spanning the course of a single summer,Private Means is acclaimed memoirist Cree LeFavour's sumptuous fiction debut--a sharply observed comedy of manners and a moving meditation on marriage, money, and loss.

A deliciously compulsive first novel from New York Times Editor's Choice author of Lights On, Rats Out , Cree LeFavour's Private Means captures the very essence of summer in a sharply observed, moving meditation on marriage, money, and loss.

It's Memorial Day weekend and Alice's beloved dog Maebelle has been lost. Alice stays in New York, desperate to find her dog, while her husband Peter drives north to stay with friends in the Berkshires. Relieved to be alone, Alice isn't sure if she should remain married...

✦ Subjects

New York (State) -- New York -- Upper West Side

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