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Fortunate lives

Robb Forman Dew

1992285 pagesabout 4–7 hours
1992
first published
  • 1992W. Morrow · 285 pages · ENGISBN 9780688107819
  • 1992Thorndike Press · 403 pages · ENGISBN 9781560544708
  • 1993HarperPerennial · 285 pages · ENGISBN 9780060975364
  • 2003Little, Brown · 296 pages · ENGISBN 9780316890687
  • 2009Little, Brown and Company · ENGISBN 9780316090346
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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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ThemesGriefFamily
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