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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Atria Books
Publication date
April 1, 2006
Pages
336
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780743292238
ISBN-10
0743292235
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Original list price
$15.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: From Alisa Kwitney, the acclaimed author of "On the Couch" and "The Dominant Blonde," comes a wickedly funny new novel about adult education. A teacher of English as a second language, Katherine Miner is an expert in idiomatic phrases, subtle verbal cues, and unwritten cultural rules, but when it comes to the opposite sex, she's baffled. Her girlfriends and her mother keep telling her that a woman who is about to turn forty needs to approach dating as a job, but Kat's decided to opt for early retirement. It's not that she hates men; she just doesn't trust them. After all, her soon-to-be ex-husband, Logan, has dropped all contact with their son, just as her own father did to her thirty years before. While Kat prepares her students for the messy business of getting personal, she has no intention of getting herself tangled up in bedsheets and emotions. But Magnus Grimmson, the tall, good-looking, tongue-tied Icelander in the front row, doesn't appear to pose any threat. In fact, the man seems to need more help deciphering women than Kat does decoding men. Then Kat receives a letter from her father that turns her life upside down. A former spy, Kat's father writes that he wants to get to know her. But her father's reappearance causes unexpected complications, and suddenly Kat finds herself questioning whom she can trust and discovering that she still has a lot to learn about men, friendship, and the kind of nonverbal communication they don't teach in school. Darkly humorous, emotionally honest, and unabashedly sexy, Alisa Kwitney's novel affirms that forty isn't the end of the road -- sometimes, it's a new beginning.
Editions
Hardcover
from Atria Books (April 11, 2006)
9780743268905 | details & prices | 330 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $22.00
About: Katherine Miner decides to give up on men after enduring painful relationships with her untrustworthy father and husband, a choice that is challenged when her father reveals his secret career as a spy and warns Katherine about those nearest to her.
About: Katherine Miner decides to give up on men after enduring painful relationships with her untrustworthy father and husband, a choice that is challenged when her father reveals his secret career as a spy and warns Katherine about those nearest to her.
Paperback
from Washington Square Pr (April 30, 2007)
9780743268943 | details & prices | 330 pages | 5.50 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $14.00
About: A teacher of English as a second language, forty-year-old Katherine Miner is an expert on idiomatic phrases and subtle verbal cues.
About: A teacher of English as a second language, forty-year-old Katherine Miner is an expert on idiomatic phrases and subtle verbal cues.
The price comparison is for this edition
from Atria Books (April 1, 2006)
9780743292238 | details & prices | 336 pages | List price $15.00
About: From Alisa Kwitney, the acclaimed author of "On the Couch" and "The Dominant Blonde," comes a wickedly funny new novel about adult education.
About: From Alisa Kwitney, the acclaimed author of "On the Couch" and "The Dominant Blonde," comes a wickedly funny new novel about adult education.
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