| International Standard Book Number |
9780802166432
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| Personal Name |
O'Nan, Stewart, 1961- author.
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| Title Statement |
Evensong : a novel / Stewart O'Nan.
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| Edition Statement |
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
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| Publisher |
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
285 pages ; 24 cm.
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume rdacarrier
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| Summary, Etc. |
The Humpty Dumpty Club is distraught when their powerhouse leader, Joan Hargrove, takes a bad fall down her stairs, knocking her out of commission. Now, as well as running errands and shepherding those less able to their doctors' appointments, they have to pick up the slack. Between navigating their own relationships and aging bodies and attending choir practice, these invisible yet indomitable women help where they can. They bake cookies, they care for pets, they pick up prescriptions, they sit vigil by the sick, and most of all, they show up for the people they've pledged to help. In the face of death, divorce, and the myriad directions our lives can take, the Humpty Dumpty club represents the power of community and chosen family.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Interpersonal relations Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Female friendship Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Older women Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women Fiction. Societies and clubs
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Community life Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction. lcgft.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels. lcgft.
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