The Rose Thieves: Stories
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The Rose Thieves gives us the Vanderwald family: flamboyant, hot-tempered Lila, who feels trapped living in a small New England town; her sentimental, eternally optimistic husband, a failed futures-market investor; and their children. An affectionate daughter steals flowers from gardens all over town for her big sister's sixteenth birthday. A tea party for the local minister is turned upside down by a four-year-old's remark. Sheep wander...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0312288328
ISBN13:9780312288327
Release Date:October 2003
Publisher:St. Martins Press-3PL
Length:176 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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Contemporary Domestic Life Fiction Literature & Fiction Short Stories Women's FictionCustomer Reviews
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A bittersweet coming of age story
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
THE ROSE THIEVES is the first humorous book written since the 1940's that is actually fun and funny . Written by Heidi jon Schmidt, who can take her seat at the table with Benchly, Parker, Cerf, and Thurber, the ROSE THIEVES is a bittersweet tale about growing up in the 1960's amid a family beset by bankruptcy, divorce, and insanity. The level of desperation is so great it is almost farcial. Schmidt knows how to tell a good yarn and time a joke. The ROSE THIEVES is one of the last great American novels written by someone not influenced by the television age
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