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Published:
New York : Doubleday, 2024.
Format:
Book
Physical Desc:
498 pages ; 25 cm
Status:
East Hampton Adult Fiction
FIC LOM

Description

"Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the placid plateau of mid-life. But Julia has never navigated the world with the equanimity of her current privileged class. Having nearly derailed herself several times, making desperate bids for the kind of connection that always felt inaccessible to her, she finally feels, at age fifty-seven, that she has a firm handle on things. She's unprepared, though, for what comes next: a surprise announcement from her straight-arrow son, an impending separation from her spiky teenaged daughter, and a seductive resurgence of the past, all of which threaten to draw her back into the patterns that had previously kept her on a razor's edge. Same As It Ever Was traverses the rocky terrain of real life, exploring avenues of maternal ambivalence, intergenerational friendship, and the happenstantial cause and effect that governs us all. Delving even deeper into the nature of relationships--how they grow, change, and sometimes end--Lombardo proves herself a true and definitive cartographer of the human heart and asserts herself among the finest novelists of her generation."--

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"Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the placid plateau of mid-life. But Julia has never navigated the world with the equanimity of her current privileged class. Having nearly derailed herself several times, making desperate bids for the kind of connection that always felt inaccessible to her, she finally feels, at age fifty-seven, that she has a firm handle on things. She's unprepared, though, for what comes next: a surprise announcement from her straight-arrow son, an impending separation from her spiky teenaged daughter, and a seductive resurgence of the past, all of which threaten to draw her back into the patterns that had previously kept her on a razor's edge. Same As It Ever Was traverses the rocky terrain of real life, exploring avenues of maternal ambivalence, intergenerational friendship, and the happenstantial cause and effect that governs us all. Delving even deeper into the nature of relationships--how they grow, change, and sometimes end--Lombardo proves herself a true and definitive cartographer of the human heart and asserts herself among the finest novelists of her generation."--,Amazon.com.

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APA Citation (style guide)

Lombardo, C. (2024). Same as it ever was. Doubleday.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Lombardo, Claire, 1988-. 2024. Same As It Ever Was. Doubleday.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Lombardo, Claire, 1988-, Same As It Ever Was. Doubleday, 2024.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Lombardo, Claire. Same As It Ever Was. Doubleday, 2024.

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