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The Hundred-Year House

The Hundred-Year House( )
Author: Makkai, Rebecca
ISBN:978-0-434-02297-7
Publication Date:Aug 2014
Publisher:Penguin Random House
Imprint:William Heinemann
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $42.99
Book Description:

The acclaimed author of The Borrower returns with a dazzlingly original, mordantly witty novel about the secrets of an old-money family and their turn-of-the-century estate, Laurelfield. Meet the Devohrs: Zee, a Marxist literary scholar who detests her parents' wealth but nevertheless finds herself living in their carriage house; Gracie, her mother, who claims she can tell your lot in life by looking at your teeth; and Bruce, her step-father, stockpiling supplies...
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Book Details
Pages:352
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Family Life / General
Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Satire
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):14.4 x 22.2 x 3.2 cm
Book Weight:0.528 Kilograms
Author Biography
Makkai, Rebecca (Author)
Rebecca Makkai is an author, based in the Chicago area. She holds as MA from Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English and a BA from Washington and Lee University. She was an elementary Montessori teacher for twelve years before becoming a writer. She is on the MFA faculties of Sierra Nevada College and Northwestern University. And she is the Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago.

She has had her short fiction published in such anthologies as The Pushcart Prize XLI, The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, New Stories from the Midwest, and Best American Fantasy. She has a short story collection entitled Music for Wartime. She won the 2017 Pushcart prize for short fiction. Her first novel was entitled The Borrower. Her other novels include The Hundred-Year House and The Great Believers. She won the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for fiction with her novel, The Great Believers.

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