| International Standard Book Number |
9780385551984 electronic book
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780385552783 paperback
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| International Standard Book Number |
9798217008124 trade paperback
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780385551977 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
0385551975 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781399757294 paperback
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| International Standard Book Number |
1399757296 paperback
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| Personal Name |
Greer, Andrew Sean, author.
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| Title Statement |
Villa Coco : a novel / Andrew Sean Greer.
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| Edition Statement |
First Doubleday hardcover edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
269 pages ; 25 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"An aspiring archivist determined to begin a 'serious' life after an undistinguished undergraduate career takes up residence in the Italian countryside. Here, he becomes the all-purpose assistant to the Baronessa, known to her friends as Coco, a defiantly youthful and naturally flamboyant woman of ninety-two. Amid a chaotic and colorful milieu of gin-swilling princesses, incomprehensible handymen, roaming boarhunters, nuns, and other local wildlife, our young man does his best to catalog the villa's extensive collection of art and antiques -- although he notices that things seem to go missing from right under his nose. Despite himself, he tumbles into an affair with a married man, complicating his future plans considerably. And when the Baronessa loses someone close to her, he becomes an unwitting accomplice in the acceleration of Coco's great and final plan: to locate the love of her life and be reunited before it's too late."-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Nobility Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Gay men Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Art thefts Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Americans Italy Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Archivists Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
College graduates Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
LGBTQ+ people Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Art Private collections Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Tuscany (Italy) Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Italy Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Humorous fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Gay fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Queer fiction.
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