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The myth of perpetual summer
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- ISBN: 9781501172014
- ISBN: 1501172018
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Physical Description:
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350 pages ; 21 cm - Edition: First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Gallery Books, [2018]
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| General Note: | Includes a readers group guide. |
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| Subject: | Nineteen sixties Fiction Family secrets Fiction Mental illness Fiction FICTION / Coming of Age FICTION / Historical |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Bildungsromans. |
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