Where the Heart Is (Paperback)
| Author: Billie Letts |
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Product Details:
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
ISBN-10: 0446672211
ISBN-13: 9780446672214
Sku: 30350727
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 8.25H x 5.25L x 1.25T
Pages:
384
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| An award-winning novel features a pregnant teenaged mother who is stranded in a small town in Oklahoma, where a quirky cast of characters, from a blue-haired Baptist to an eccentric librarian, changes her life. Reissue. *Author: Letts, Billie *Publication Date: 1998/06/01 *Number of Pages: 376 *Binding Type: Paperback *Language: English *Depth: 1.25 *Width: 5.25 *Height: 8.25 |
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From the Publisher:
Abandoned by her boyfriend at a Wal-Mart in Oklahoma, Novalee Nation, 17 years old and seven months pregnant, soon discovers the treasures hiding in this small Southwest town. "A heartfelt, gratifying read".--"Publishers Weekly". |
Annotation:
Novalee Nation heads this first novel. A feisty young woman who is seven months pregnant when she leaves her Tennessee trailer park with her boyfriend, she is abandoned outside a Wal-Mart in Oklahoma. Living on canned goods and sleeping behind the water heater, Novalee carries her pregnancy to term, and her child becomes known as the Wal-Mart baby. Novalee eventually gets a job at the Wal-Mart, and makes a life for herself and her child.
Novalee Nation heads this first novel. A feisty young woman who is seven months pregnant when she leaves her Tennessee trailer park with her boyfriend, she is abandoned outside a Wal-Mart in Oklahoma. Living on canned goods and sleeping behind the water heater, Novalee carries her pregnancy to term, and her child becomes known as the Wal-Mart baby. Novalee eventually gets a job at the Wal-Mart, and makes a life for herself and her child.
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"Fresh and engaging...Novalee leads the reader on a never-to-be forgotten journey." - Anne Rivers Siddons
"Fresh and engaging...Novalee leads the reader on a never-to-be forgotten journey." - Anne Rivers Siddons

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