Back when we were grownups

Description

Een 53-jarige vrouw zit in een midlife-crisis en blikt terug op de tijd dat ze als 19-jarige trouwde met een weduwnaar met drie dochters, een groot huis en een bedrijf.

First Sentence

Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.

Description

""Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." So Anne Tyler opens this irresistible new novel." "The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother. Is she an imposter in her own life? she asks herself. Is it indeed her own life? Or is it someone else's?". "On the surface, Beck, as she is known to the Davitch clan, is outgoing, joyous, a natural celebrator. Giving parties is, after all, her vocation - something she slipped into even before finishing college, when Joe Davitch spotted her at an engagement party in his family's crumbling nineteenth-century Baltimore row house, where giving parties was the family business. What caught his fancy was that she seemed to be having such a wonderful time. Soon this large-spirited older man, a divorce with three little girls, swept her into his orbit, and before she knew it she was embracing his extended family plus a child of their own, and hosting endless parties in the ornate, high-ceilinged rooms of The Open Arms.". "Now, some thirty years, later, after presiding over a disastrous family picnic, Rebecca is caught unawares by the question of who she really is. How she answers it - how she tries to recover her girlhood self, that dignified grownup she had once been - is the story told in this novel."--BOOK JACKET.

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Genres

• Fiction

Other Editions

• Back when we were grownups: a novelKnopf2001-01-01
• Back when we were grownupsA.A. Knopf2001-01-01
• Toen we volwassen warenCargo2001-01-01
• Back when we were grownupsdistributed by Random House, Inc.2001-01-01
• Back When We Were GrownupsElectronic resourceKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group2001-01-01
• Back When We Were GrownupsHardcoverAlfred a Knopf Inc2001-04-24