| International Standard Book Number |
9780593798447 (ebook)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780593798430 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
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| International Standard Book Number |
0593798430 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780593798454 (trade paperback ; acid-free paper)
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| International Standard Book Number |
0593798457 (trade paperback ; acid-free paper)
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| Personal Name |
Evans, Virginia, 1986- author.
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| Title Statement |
The correspondent : a novel / Virginia Evans.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
285 pages ; 25 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Sybil is seventy-three years old, in the winter of her life. Sybil has always made sense of the world through writing letters and through this epistolary novel we see how she comes to terms with her past and present and learns forgiveness"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Summary, Etc. |
Throughout her life Sybil Van Antwerp has used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings around half past ten Sybil sits down to write letters -- to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to audit a class she desperately wants to take, to Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the letter. Sybil expects her world to go on as it always has. A mother, grandmother, wife, divorcee, distinguished lawyer, she has lived a full life. But when letters from someone in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life, she realizes the letter she has been writing over the years needs to be read and that she cannot move forward until she finds it in her heart to offer forgiveness.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Self-realization Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Older women Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Retirees Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Forgiveness Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Letter writing Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Regret Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Epistolary fiction.
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