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Charms for the Easy Life
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Kaye Gibbons
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Avon Books
Publication date
April 1, 1994
Pages
254
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780380722709
ISBN-10
0380722704
Dimensions
1 by 4.25 by 7 in.
Weight
0.30 lbs.
Original list price
$6.99
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Living in the backwoods of North Carolina, the headstrong Sophia and her shy and brilliant daughter Margaret are protected throughout the years by the family's remarkable healer matriarch, Charlie Kate. Reissue. NYT.
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeatlives in the lush, green backwoods of North Carolina.In a sad and singular era, they are unique among womenof their time. For radiant, headstrong Sophia and her shy andbrilliant daughter Margaret possess powerful charmsto ward off loneliness, despair, and the human misery that alltoo often beats a path to their door. And they are protectedthrough the years by the eccentric wisdom and muscular loveof the most stalwart Birch of all -- a solid, unbending anduncompromising self-taught healer who can cure everythingfrom boils to broken hones to broken hearts ... a remarkablematriarch who calls herself Charlie Kate.
Charms for the Easy Life is the passionate, luminous, andexhilarating New York Times bestseller by Kaye Gibbons,the acclaimed author of Ellen Foster and Sights Unseen.
Editions
Hardcover
Large print edition from Wheeler Pub Inc (July 1, 1993)
9781568950303 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $23.95
from Putnam Pub Group (March 1, 1993)
9780399137914 | details & prices | 5.75 × 8.25 × 1.25 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $19.95
About: Margaret struggles toward adulthood in a world torn apart by the Second World War and complicated by her strong-willed mother, Sophia, and grandmother, Charlie Kate, in a story about three generations of passionate, willful Southern women
About: Margaret struggles toward adulthood in a world torn apart by the Second World War and complicated by her strong-willed mother, Sophia, and grandmother, Charlie Kate, in a story about three generations of passionate, willful Southern women
Paperback
from Perennial (July 1, 2005)
9780060760250 | details & prices | 254 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.46 lbs | List price $13.99
About: Margaret struggles toward adulthood in a world torn apart by the Second World War and complicated by her strong-willed mother, Sophia, and grandmother, Charlie Kate, in a story about three generations of passionate, willful Southern women.
About: Margaret struggles toward adulthood in a world torn apart by the Second World War and complicated by her strong-willed mother, Sophia, and grandmother, Charlie Kate, in a story about three generations of passionate, willful Southern women.
from Avon Books (June 1, 1995)
9780380725571 | details & prices | 254 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $12.95
About: In the verdant backwoods of North Carolina, in a sad and singular era, the Birches are unique among women of their time-living gloriously rich it decidedly offbeat lives in a private world ahandoned by men.
About: In the verdant backwoods of North Carolina, in a sad and singular era, the Birches are unique among women of their time-living gloriously rich it decidedly offbeat lives in a private world ahandoned by men.
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Reprint edition from Avon Books (April 1, 1994)
9780380722709 | details & prices | 254 pages | 4.25 × 7.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.30 lbs | List price $6.99
About: Margaret struggles toward adulthood in a world torn apart by the Second World War and complicated by her strong-willed mother, Sophia, and grandmother, Charlie Kate, in a story about three generations of passionate, willful Southern women
About: Margaret struggles toward adulthood in a world torn apart by the Second World War and complicated by her strong-willed mother, Sophia, and grandmother, Charlie Kate, in a story about three generations of passionate, willful Southern women
CD/Spoken Word
With Kate Fleming (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Chivers Sound Library (April 1, 2001)
9780792799917 | details & prices | 7.25 × 7.25 × 1.50 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $64.95
About: Margaret struggles toward adulthood in a world torn apart by the Second World War and complicated by her strong-willed mother, Sophia, and grandmother, Charlie Kate, in a story about three generations of passionate, willful Southern women.
About: Margaret struggles toward adulthood in a world torn apart by the Second World War and complicated by her strong-willed mother, Sophia, and grandmother, Charlie Kate, in a story about three generations of passionate, willful Southern women.
Cassette/Spoken Word
With Kate Fleming (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Chivers Audio Books (March 1, 2000)
9780792723523 | details & prices | 6.25 × 8.75 × 1.25 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $54.95
About: Margaret struggles toward adulthood in a world torn apart by the Second World War and complicated by her strong-willed mother, Sophia, and grandmother, Charlie Kate, in a story about three generations of passionate, willful Southern women.
About: Margaret struggles toward adulthood in a world torn apart by the Second World War and complicated by her strong-willed mother, Sophia, and grandmother, Charlie Kate, in a story about three generations of passionate, willful Southern women.
Abridged edition from Simon & Schuster (April 1, 1994)
9780671885359 | details & prices | 4.50 × 7.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $17.00
About: Margaret struggles toward adulthood in a world torn apart by the Second World War and complicated by her strong-willed mother, Sophia, and grandmother, Charlie Kate, in a story about three generations of passionate, willful Southern women.
About: Margaret struggles toward adulthood in a world torn apart by the Second World War and complicated by her strong-willed mother, Sophia, and grandmother, Charlie Kate, in a story about three generations of passionate, willful Southern women.
Abridged edition from Simon & Schuster Audioworks (April 1, 1994)
9780671044961 | details & prices | 4.50 × 7.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $9.98
About: Margaret struggles toward adulthood in a world torn apart by the Second World War and complicated by her strong-willed mother, Sophia, and grandmother, Charlie Kate, in a story about three generations of passionate, willful Southern women.
About: Margaret struggles toward adulthood in a world torn apart by the Second World War and complicated by her strong-willed mother, Sophia, and grandmother, Charlie Kate, in a story about three generations of passionate, willful Southern women.
Reinforced
from Demco Media (April 1, 1994)
9780606071543 | details & prices | 4.50 × 7.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $16.80
About: Margaret struggles toward adulthood in a world torn apart by the Second World War and complicated by her strong-willed mother, Sophia, and grandmother, Charlie Kate, in a story about three generations of passionate, willful Southern women
About: Margaret struggles toward adulthood in a world torn apart by the Second World War and complicated by her strong-willed mother, Sophia, and grandmother, Charlie Kate, in a story about three generations of passionate, willful Southern women
Prebinding
from Turtleback Books (October 1, 1999)
9780785727446 | details & prices | 4.50 × 7.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $16.75
About: Margaret struggles toward adulthood in a world torn apart by the Second World War and complicated by her strong-willed mother, Sophia, and grandmother, Charlie Kate, in a story about three generations of passionate, willful Southern women
About: Margaret struggles toward adulthood in a world torn apart by the Second World War and complicated by her strong-willed mother, Sophia, and grandmother, Charlie Kate, in a story about three generations of passionate, willful Southern women
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