The Tiger in the Grass
  • Published:
    Dec-1995 (Hardcover)
    Oct-1996 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Time Period:
    Contemporary
  • Pages:
    224
  • Age Level:
    18 & up
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In her first collection of stories and pieces, Harriet Doerr explores the magical power of memory and brings us a wealth of unforgettable characters: eccentric eighty-two-year-old Great-Aunt Alice, who, empowered by a lucid memory, lived out her final, physically debilitated years with grace; Edie, who arrives in California from England to bring sanity and peace to a house with five half-orphaned children and a despairing widower; Paco, eight years old, and Gloria, eleven, children caught between the longing and pleasures of childhood and the harsh mature realities of their meager circumstances in a Mexican village. These and other characters are captured in the web of life with a startling sensitivity that will touch the reader at every turn.
 
“Strikingly pure and radiant.” -- The New York Times Book Review
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EDITIONS
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    •  
    • Oct-1996
    • Penguin
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0140251480
    • ISBN13: 9780140251487
    • First Edition
    • Dec-1995
    • Viking
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0670864714
    • ISBN13: 9780670864713
    •  
    • Oct-1996
    • Penguin
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1440674310
    • ISBN13: 9781440674310
    •  
    • Sep-1996
    • Wheeler
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1568953585
    • ISBN13: 9781568953588
    • Large Print



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