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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Picador USA
Publication date December 12, 2006
Pages 391
Binding Paperback
Edition Reprint
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780312425944
ISBN-10 0312425945
Dimensions 1 by 5.50 by 8.25 in.
Weight 0.80 lbs.
Original list price $26.00
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Summary
Chronicles the intertwined lives of two women who meet as freshmen in 1968 on the campus of Columbia University--Georgette George and her idealistic, radical roommate Ann Drayton--from their first encounter, through the fight that ends their friendship, to Ann's arrest for murder in 1976 and Georgette's search for answers to the riddle of Ann's life. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
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A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Year

Ann Drayton and Georgette George meet as freshmen roommates at Barnard College in 1968. Ann, who comes from a wealthy New England family, is brilliant and idealistic. Georgette, who comes from a bleak town in upstate New York, is mystified by Ann's romanticization of the underprivileged class, which Georgette herself is hoping college will enable her to escape. An intense and difficult friendship is born.

Years after a fight ends their friendship, Ann is convicted of a violent crime. As Georgette struggles to understand what has happened, she is led back to their shared history and to an examination of the revolutionary era in which the two women came of age. Only now does she discover how much her early encounter with this extraordinary, complicated woman has determined her own path in life, and why, after all this time, as she tells us, "I have never stopped thinking about her."



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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780374183813 Book cover for 9781597222525
 
Large print edition from Wheeler Pub Inc (July 30, 2006)
9781597222525 | details & prices | 669 pages | 5.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.69 lbs | List price $28.95
About: A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearA Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the YearAnn Drayton and Georgette George meet as freshmen roommates at Barnard College in 1968.
from Farrar Straus & Giroux (December 27, 2005)
9780374183813 | details & prices | 375 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.45 lbs | List price $25.00
About: Chronicles the lives of two women who meet as freshmen in 1968 at Columbia University--Georgette George and her idealistic, radical roommate Ann Drayton--from their first encounter, through the fight that ends their friendship, to Ann's arrest for murderin 1976 and Georgette's search for answers to the riddle of Ann's life.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780312425944
 
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Reprint edition from Picador USA (December 12, 2006)
9780312425944 | details & prices | 391 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $26.00
About: Chronicles the lives of two women who meet as freshmen in 1968 at Columbia University--Georgette George and her idealistic, radical roommate Ann Drayton--from their first encounter, through the fight that ends their friendship, to Ann's arrest for murderin 1976 and Georgette's search for answers to the riddle of Ann's life.

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