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The Truth of the Matter

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The Truth of the Matter

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From a National Book Award winner comes a masterful novel set in the 1940s about a woman finding a new life for herself and her grown children after her husband's death.

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0316055964

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9780316055963

The Time of Her Life

By: Robb Forman Dew

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Now restored to print -- the acclaimed second novel by the National Book Award-winning author of Dale Loves Sophie to Death and The Evidence Against Her. Claudia and Avery Parks, lovers since high school, are now in their thirties. Intelligent, charming, sympathetic, they seem to be the ideal couple, the perfect dinner-party guests, almost everything people should be -- except responsible. They are causally yet cruelly oblivious to the ways in which their words and actions affect other people, most particularly their talented 11-year-old daughter, who suffers the misfortune of being treated by her parents not as a child but as an equal. An engrossing domestic tale by a novelist of the first rank -- an ideal selection for reading groups. Robb Forman Dew's first novel, Dale Loves Sophie to Death, received the National Book Award in 1982.

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Hachette UK

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0316090360

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9780316090360

Fortunate Lives

A Novel

By: Robb Forman Dew

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Fortunate Lives

A Novel

By: Robb Forman Dew

The Howells family are revisited in the summer of 1991. David, 18, is preparing to go to Harvard and Sarah is now 13. A young woman, Netta Breckenridge, enters the family's lives and creates a fragile domesticity for the Howells.

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Back Bay Books

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0316090344

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9780316090346

The Evidence Against Her

A Novel

By: Robb Forman Dew

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The Evidence Against Her

A Novel

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Charts the confluence through marriage of three families in a small Ohio town.

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348

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Hachette Digital, Inc.

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0316890197

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9780316890199

Dale Loves Sophie to Death

By: Robb Forman Dew

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Dale Loves Sophie to Death

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Robb Forman Dew's cult first novel explores themes of familial and romantic bonds as it tells the story of a woman whose husband stays behind in New England while she and their children spend the summer in her Midwestern hometown.

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256

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Back Bay Books

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0316890669

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9780316890663

Being Polite to Hitler

A Novel

By: Robb Forman Dew

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Being Polite to Hitler

A Novel

By: Robb Forman Dew

After teaching and raising her family for most of her life, Agnes Scofield realizes that she is truly weary of the routine her life has become. But how, at 51, can she establish an identity apart from what has so long defined her? Often eloquent, sometimes blunt, and always full of fire, The Scofield clan is not a family that keeps its opinions to itself. As much as she'd like to, Agnes can no more deflect their adamant advice than she can step down as their matriarch. And despite her newfound freedom, Agnes finds herself becoming even more entangled in the family web. She shepherds her daughter-in-law, Lavinia, who moves in with her own two daughters to escape her husband's drinking. She puts out fires, smoothes fraying nerves, and, stunned as anyone, receives a marriage proposal. Having expected her life to become smaller, Agnes is amazed to see it grow instead. Robb Forman Dew intricately weaves together personal and family life into a richly wrought tapestry of the country in the 1950s and beyond. Being Polite to Hitler is a moving, frank, and surprising portrait of post-World War II America.

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Hachette+ORM

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031612172X

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9780316121729

Being Polite to Hitler

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Being Polite to Hitler

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Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company, January 2011. First Back Bay paperback edition, October 2011." --T.p. verso.

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159

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Back Bay Books

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0316172855

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9780316172851

A Southern Thanksgiving

Recipes and Musings for a Manageable Feast

By: Robb Forman Dew

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A Southern Thanksgiving

Recipes and Musings for a Manageable Feast

By: Robb Forman Dew

Robb Forman Dew first began collecting her Thanksgiving recipes at the request of a cousin who hadn't cooked before. In A Southern Thanksgiving, she gathers them into a cookbook--both practical and literary--for an easy-to-prepare, sumptuous Southern feast. In recreating the ambiance of her remembered Thanksgivings in the South, she found that planning ahead is crucial. A Southern Thanksgiving includes recipes for such delicious dishes as Yams Mousseline, Roast Turkey with Gravy and Cornbread Dressing, and Lalie's Pumpkin Chiffon Pie with Gingersnap Crust--many of which can be made weeks ahead and frozen. Dew offers such an effortless strategy for preparing the Thanksgiving meal that both you and your guests will have the time to enjoy the day together. Hers is a book to be treasured, savored, and used by first-time cooks and experienced hosts alike.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1632863782

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9781632863782

Being Polite to Hitler

A Novel

By: Robb Forman Dew

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A Novel

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Family Heart

A Memoir of When Our Son Came Out

By: Robb Forman Dew

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Family Heart

A Memoir of When Our Son Came Out

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ASTONISHINGLY MOVING...The Family Heart is a tough and challenging work, for it reminds us that empathy is a humble but radical virtue, if lived." --USA Today " I'm gay.' Every day, parents around the world hear those words from their children. Most are utterly unprepared for them. By writing The Family Heart, Robb Forman Dew has done such parents an extraordinary service." --The Washington Post Book World "TOUCHINGLY WRITTEN." --The Boston Globe "At the heart of this memoir lies a true epiphany: the author's sudden, galvanizing awareness of the suicidal consequences of homophobia. It is a chilling moment, and it is described with a writer's eloquence and a mother's rage....Dew's intense imagination, combined with her ignorance of homosexuality, was as much a hindrance as a help, and it is to her credit that she has recorded the occasionally wacky assumptions and painful readjustments of her own odyssey with such care and humor." --The New Yorker "POETIC, HONEST." --Fort Worth Star-Telegram "Eloquent and absorbing...The true testament of Mrs. Dew and her husband as parents, and the most powerful moments of this inspiring memoir, occur when they come out' to their community as parents of a gay child....Though Mrs. Dew imparts a lot of self-gained wisdom in this perceptive and beautifully articulated story, in the end she realizes she has something she has always had--a strong loving family and two good sons." --The Dallas Morning News "AMEN FROM ANY MOTHER, EVERY MOTHER." --Anna Quindlen The New York Times

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Ballantine Books

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0345394089

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9780345394088

The Time of Her Life

By: Robb Forman Dew

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Back Bay Books

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0316090360

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Fortunate Lives

A Novel

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Dale Loves Sophie to Death

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0316055395

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A Southern Thanksgiving

Recipes and Musings for a Manageable Feast

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Recipes and Musings for a Manageable Feast

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1632863782

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The Evidence Against Her

A Novel

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The Evidence Against Her

A Novel

By: Robb Forman Dew

Set against the landscape of a turn-of-the-century small midwestern town, this is a classic story, a love story, a story of a family that readers will ache to follow into the next generation.

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Little, Brown

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0759526060

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9780759526068

The Truth of the Matter

By: Robb Forman Dew

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The Truth of the Matter

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From a National Book Award winner comes a masterful novel set in the 1940s about a woman finding a new life for herself and her grown children after her husband's death.

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Fortunate Lives

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Fortunate Lives

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Picks up the Howell family saga just as oldest son, David, prepares to enter Harvard, revealing the evolution of a mother-son relationship over the course of a summer.

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0316168092

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The Evidence Against Her

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The Evidence Against Her

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In a Ohio town around 1920, Lily Scofield's relationship with the two people closest to her, her husband Robert and her cousin Warren, is disrupted when a young woman falls in love with Warren.

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031614519X

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