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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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Livesey, Margot |
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Title:
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The boy in the field : |
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Remainder of title:
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a novel |
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Summary, etc. note:
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"One September afternoon in 1999, teenagers Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang are walking home from school when they discover a boy lying in a field, bloody and unconscious. Thanks to their intervention, the boy's life is saved. In the aftermath, all three siblings are irrevocably changed. Matthew, the oldest, becomes obsessed with tracking down the assailant, secretly searching the local town with the victim's brother. Zoe wanders the streets of Oxford, looking at men, and one of them, a visiting American graduate student, returns her gaze. Duncan, the youngest, who has seldom thought about being adopted, suddenly decides he wants to find his birth mother. Overshadowing all three is the awareness that something is amiss in their parents' marriage. Over the course of the autumn, as each of the siblings confronts the complications and contradictions of their approaching adulthood, they find themselves at once drawn together and driven apart"-- |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9780062946393 |
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(hardback) |
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(ebook) |
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Canceled/invalid ISBN:
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9780062946416 |
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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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Classification number:
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PR9199.3.L563 |
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Item number:
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B69 2020 |
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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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Relator term:
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author. |
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Statement of responsibility, etc.:
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Margot Livesey. |
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Edition statement:
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First edition. |
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Place of publication:
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New York ,NY |
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Name of publisher:
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HarperCollins Publishers |
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Date of publication:
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2020 |
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Projected publication date:
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2008 |
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New York : |
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HarperCollins Publishers, |
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[2020] |
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Extent:
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254 pages |
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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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Provided by publisher. |
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Source of acquisition:
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B & T 8/28/2020 |
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Purchase price:
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26.99 |
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Subject:
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Compassion |
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Subject:
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Secrets |
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Subject:
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Family |
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Genre/form data or focus term:
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Domestic fiction. |
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Main entry heading:
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Livesey, Margot, |
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Place, publisher, and date of publication:
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New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2020. |
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Display text:
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Online version: |
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Title:
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The boy in the field |
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Record control number:
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(DLC) 2019045211 |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9780062946416 |
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Acquire |
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1 shelf copy |
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policy default |
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xk15 2019-10-04 (telework) |
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xk15 2019-10-04 (telework) to CIP |
Bibliography Copy Information:
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51358 |
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