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Unforgettable characters bloom in memory’s radiant, sensitive web of life.
The Tiger in the Grass
Stories and Other Inventions
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- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 October 1996
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Summary
In her first collection of stories and pieces, Harriet Doerr explores the magical power of memory and brings us a wealth of unforgettable characters.
- Great-Aunt Alice: An eccentric eighty-two-year-old who, empowered by a lucid memory, lived out her final, physically debilitated years with grace.
- Edie: Arrives in California from England to bring sanity and peace to a house with five half-orphaned children and a despairing widower. <…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140251487 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140251480 |
| Author: | Harriet Doerr |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 1996 |
| Weight: | 186g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Harriet Doerr
Harriet Doerr (1910-2002) was the author of Tiger in the Grass, Consider This, Senora, and Stones for Ibarra, which received the American Book Award for First Work of Fiction, and was translated into ten languages and published in twelve countries abroad. She received her BA from Stanford in 1977, and then continued in the Creative Writing Program, where she was named a Stegner Fellow.
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