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The Mistress's Daughter
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A. M. Homes
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Penguin USA
Publication date
March 25, 2008
Pages
238
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780143113317
ISBN-10
0143113313
Dimensions
0.50 by 5 by 7.75 in.
Weight
0.38 lbs.
Original list price
$15.00
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Why We Write About Ourselves | May We Be Forgiven | This Book Will Save Your Life | Love, Sorrow, and Rage | Things You Should Know | Brother, I'm Dying | Music for Torching
Why We Write About Ourselves | May We Be Forgiven | This Book Will Save Your Life | Love, Sorrow, and Rage | Things You Should Know | Brother, I'm Dying | Music for Torching
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The "fierce and eloquent" (New York Times) memoir by the award-winning author of May We Be Forgiven and This Book Will Save Your Life
The acclaimed writer A. M. Homes was given up for adoption before she was born. Her biological mother was a twenty-two-year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older married man with a family of his own. The Mistress's Daughter is the ruthlessly honest account of what happened when, thirty years later, her birth parents came looking for her. Homes relates how they initially made contact and what happened afterwards, and digs through the family history of both sets of her parents in a twenty-first-century electronic search for self. Daring, heartbreaking, and startlingly funny, Homes's memoir is a brave and profoundly moving consideration of identity and family.
"A compelling, devastating, and furiously good book written with an honesty few of us would risk." —Zadie Smith
"I fell in love with it from the first page and read compulsively to the end." —Amy Tan
The acclaimed writer A. M. Homes was given up for adoption before she was born. Her biological mother was a twenty-two-year-old single woman who was having an affair with a much older married man with a family of his own. The Mistress's Daughter is the ruthlessly honest account of what happened when, thirty years later, her birth parents came looking for her. Homes relates how they initially made contact and what happened afterwards, and digs through the family history of both sets of her parents in a twenty-first-century electronic search for self. Daring, heartbreaking, and startlingly funny, Homes's memoir is a brave and profoundly moving consideration of identity and family.
"A compelling, devastating, and furiously good book written with an honesty few of us would risk." —Zadie Smith
"I fell in love with it from the first page and read compulsively to the end." —Amy Tan
Editions
Hardcover
Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (September 5, 2007)
9780786298150 | details & prices | 279 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $30.95
About: A woman who was adopted as a newborn recounts her experience of meeting her birth parents, describing how adoption affected her sense of identity, and her efforts to learn more about her birth mother after her death.
About: A woman who was adopted as a newborn recounts her experience of meeting her birth parents, describing how adoption affected her sense of identity, and her efforts to learn more about her birth mother after her death.
from Granta Books (June 4, 2007)
9781862079304 | details & prices | 256 pages | 5.25 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.88 lbs | List price $23.15
About: On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption.
About: On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption.
from Viking Pr (April 5, 2007)
9780670038381 | details & prices | 238 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $24.95
About: An acclaimed novelist's memoir about what it means to be adopted and how all of us construct our sense of self and family.
About: An acclaimed novelist's memoir about what it means to be adopted and how all of us construct our sense of self and family.
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Penguin USA (March 25, 2008)
9780143113317 | details & prices | 238 pages | 5.00 × 7.75 × 0.50 in. | 0.38 lbs | List price $15.00
About: The "fierce and eloquent" (New York Times) memoir by the award-winning author of May We Be Forgiven and This Book Will Save Your LifeThe acclaimed writer A.
About: The "fierce and eloquent" (New York Times) memoir by the award-winning author of May We Be Forgiven and This Book Will Save Your LifeThe acclaimed writer A.
CD/Spoken Word
With Jane Adams (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Penguin/Highbridge (April 5, 2007)
9780143141839 | details & prices | 5.25 × 5.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.34 lbs | List price $29.95
About: A woman who was adopted as a newborn recounts her experience of meeting her birth parents, describing how adoption affected her sense of identity, and her efforts to learn more about her birth mother after her death.
About: A woman who was adopted as a newborn recounts her experience of meeting her birth parents, describing how adoption affected her sense of identity, and her efforts to learn more about her birth mother after her death.
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