This strange eventful history: a novel
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New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, ©2024.
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Book
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First edition.
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428 pages : map ; 24 cm
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East Hampton Adult Fiction
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Inspired in part by long-ago stories from her own family's history, this masterful story follows the Cassars over seven decades, starting with patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them, and ending with Chloe, who believes telling her family's buried stories will bring them all peace.
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ISBN:
9780393635041
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Description
Inspired in part by long-ago stories from her own family's history, this masterful story follows the Cassars over seven decades, starting with patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them, and ending with Chloe, who believes telling her family's buried stories will bring them all peace.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Messud, C. (2024). This strange eventful history: a novel. First edition. W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Messud, Claire, 1966-. 2024. This Strange Eventful History: A Novel. W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Messud, Claire, 1966-, This Strange Eventful History: A Novel. W.W. Norton & Company, 2024.
MLA Citation (style guide)Messud, Claire. This Strange Eventful History: A Novel. First edition. W.W. Norton & Company, 2024.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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