Object Lessons
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Object Lessons
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Narrated by:
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Emily Lawrence
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Written by:
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Anna Quindlen
About this listen
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
"Elaborate and playful...Honest and deeply felt....Here is the Quindlen wit, the sharp eye for the details of class and manners, [and] the ardent reading of domestic lives."
—THE NEW YORK TIMES
It is the 1960s, in suburban New York City. Maggie and her family, are in the thrall of her powerful grandfather Jack Scanlan. In the summer of her twelfth year, Maggie is desperately trying to master the object lessons her grandfather fills her head with. But there is too much going on to concentrate. Everything at home is in upheaval, her grandfather is changing, and Maggie is unsure if what she wants is worth having....
©1991 Anna Quindlen. (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Reader's Guide © 2003 by Anna Quindlen and The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. Acknowledgment is made to Cherio Corporation for permission to reprint excerpts from "Daddy's Little Girl," words and music by Bobby Burke and Horace Gerlach. © 1949 by Cherio Corp. © renewed 1977 by Cherio Corp. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission.