Back when we were grownups / a novel by Anne Tyler.
"Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother. 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 married into after Joe Davitch spotted her at an engagement party in his family's crumbling nineteenth-century Baltimore row house, where giving parties was his family business. What caught Joe's fancy was that she seemed to be having such a wonderful time. Soon this large-spirited divorcé with three little girls swept Beck 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 party, Rebecca is caught un-awares by the question of who she really is. Is she an impostor in her own life? Is it indeed her own life? How she answers -- 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0375412530
- ISBN: 9780375412530
- ISBN: 0345446860
- ISBN: 9780345446862
- ISBN: 070117286X
- Physical Description: 273 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso
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Additional Physical Form Titles
| Back when we were grownups. |
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- 61 of 66 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Caswell County Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Gunn Memorial Public Library | F TYL (Text) | 34621200060146 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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