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Bibliography Information:
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Collection:
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Adult Fiction |
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Call Number:
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F |
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Author:
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McCloskey, Molly |
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Title:
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Straying |
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Remainder of title:
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a novel |
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Summary, etc. note:
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"From "an extravagantly gifted writer who deserves to be widely read" (Rachel Cusk, The Telegraph), this intimate, quietly stunning novel tells the story of a young American expat who settles in Ireland in the late 1980s, marries, and lives through the consequences of an affair. Alice, a young American, arrives in the West of Ireland with no plans and no strong attachments--except to her beloved mother, who raised her on her own. Alice falls in love with an Irishman, marries him, and settles down in a place whose customs she struggles to understand. In the course of a single hot summer, she embarks on an affair that breaks her marriage and sets her life on a new course. Years later, after working in war zones around the world, and in the immediate aftermath of her mother's death, Alice finds herself back in Ireland and contemplating the forces that led her to put down roots and then tear them up again. What drew her to her husband, and what pulled her away? Was her husband strangely complicit in the affair? Was she always under surveillance by friends and neighbors who knew more than they let on? "Molly McCloskey is one of Ireland's finest writers" (Colum McCann) and Straying is at once a gripping account of passion and ambivalence and an exquisite rumination on the things that matter most: the definition of love, the value of family, and the meaning of home"-- |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9781501172465 (hardback) |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9781501172472 (trade paper) |
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Description conventions:
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rda |
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Authentication code:
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pcc |
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Geographic area code:
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e-ie--- |
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Classification number:
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PS3563.A26164 |
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Item number:
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S77 2018 |
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Edition number:
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23 |
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Classification number:
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813/.54 |
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Source of number:
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bisacsh |
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Classification number:
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FIC019000 |
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Classification number:
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FIC027020 |
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Classification number:
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FIC025000 |
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Dates associated with a name:
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1964- |
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Relator term:
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author. |
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Uniform title:
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When light is like water |
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Statement of responsibility, etc.:
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Molly McCloskey. |
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Edition statement:
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First Scribner hardcover edition. |
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Place of publication:
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New York |
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Name of publisher:
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Scribner |
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Date of publication:
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2017 |
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Projected publication date:
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1802 |
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New York : |
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Scribner, |
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2018. |
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?2017 |
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Extent:
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pages cm |
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rdacontent |
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text |
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txt |
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rdamedia |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdacarrier |
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volume |
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nc |
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General note:
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"Originally published in 2017 in Great Britain by Penguin Random House UK as When Light Is Like Water "--Title page verso. |
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Summary, etc. note:
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"A novel about a young American living in Ireland who marries a local and then begins an affair"-- |
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Provided by publisher. |
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Provided by publisher. |
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Source of acquisition:
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B & T 3/12/18 |
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Purchase price:
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24.00 |
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Source of heading or term:
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bisacsh |
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Source of heading or term:
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bisacsh |
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Source of heading or term:
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bisacsh |
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Subject:
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Americans |
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Subject:
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Interpersonal relations |
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Subject:
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Self-actualization (Psychology) |
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Subject:
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Marriage |
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Subject:
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Adultery |
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Subject:
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FICTION / Literary. |
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Subject:
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FICTION / Romance / Contemporary. |
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Subject:
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FICTION / Psychological. |
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Form subdivision:
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Fiction. |
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Form subdivision:
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Fiction. |
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Form subdivision:
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Fiction. |
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Form subdivision:
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Fiction. |
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Form subdivision:
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Fiction. |
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Geographic subdivision:
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Ireland |
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Geographic name:
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Ireland |
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Form subdivision:
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Fiction. |
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acquire |
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1 shelf copy |
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policy default |
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xk12 2017-11-07 |
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xk12 2017-11-07 ONIX (telework) to CIP |
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Sally Howe; phone: 212-6982445; email: sally.howe@simonandschuster.com; bc: julia.lee.mcgill@simonandschuster.com |