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Matters of Chance
Matters of Chance
Author: Jeannette Haien
Matters of Chance is a glorious, captivating novel about Morgan and Maude Shurtliff, who fall in love and marry in the years before World War II. — Unable to have children of their own, Morgan and Maude adopt twin girls. The four go home to their beautiful house in the country outside of New York City and begin to settle into what they hop...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780060929527
ISBN-10: 0060929529
Publication Date: 10/1/1998
Pages: 448
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  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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3.6 stars, based on 13 ratings
Publisher: Perennial
Book Type: Paperback
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In "Matters of Chance", Haien takes us through more then 3 decades of one family's pleasures and sorrows, detailing its members' enviable ability to accept the vagaries of fate. These people are old fashioned in the best ways-they know that love is what counts and that it, along with decency and compassion, will sustain them.
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By Author Jeannette Haien "Matters of Chance is a work of fiction. All the characters who appear on the book's pages are imagined. Insofar as the lives of the imagined people were profoundly influenced by the events of WWII, History looms large in the narrative, and speaks for itself. As for the most part of the books action relating to the Liberty ship SS John T. Stubbins- to her missioned wartime voyage from Tacoma, Washington to Port Said I gratefully acknowledge the conselings given me by Captain Ronan Maurice Henderson.


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