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Published in USA
May 2006
336 pages
Genre: Advice
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A highly personal and moving true story of memory and friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of Duty and Be True to Your School.
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"Unfortunately, the author's dusty attic of lost Americana is cluttered with clichés, nostalgia and overly sentimental yearnings." - PW.
"Readers who enjoyed Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking will find Greene's writing to be more wistful and plainspoken but similarly rewarding." - Library Journal.
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