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Terrific Mother

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

Terrific Mother

By Lorrie Moore

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About the book

Adrienne is living in a puritanical age, when the best compliment a childless woman can get is: 'You'd make a terrific mother'. That's when she goes to her friends' Labor Day picnic and accidentally kills their baby. The shock of this scene is expertly packed into two brief paragraphs.

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ISBN

9780571351831

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Published year

2019

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Terrific Mother

Format

Paperback

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