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008 110318s2007 nyu 000 1 eng
010 _a2007276260
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050 0 0 _aPS3563.E8134
_bW48 2007
082 0 0 _aFIC MES
100 1 _aMessud, Claire
_d, 1966-
245 1 0 _aWhen the world was steady
_c/ Claire Messud
250 _a1st Vintage Books ed.
260 _aNew York
_b: Vintage Books
_c, 2007.
300 _a270 p.
_c; 21 cm.
500 _aFirst published in Great Britain by Granta Books 1994 in association with Penguin Books.
520 _aTwo sisters, middle-aged and alienated from each other, find that their steady worlds are disintegrating. The sisters' self-scrutiny, their encounters with strangeness, and finally with each other are described in prose of unusual grace and power.
650 0 _aSisters
_x--Fiction
655 7 _aDomestic fiction
942 _cMO
999 _c260508
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