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Last Things
Last Things
Author: Jenny Offill
A spare, bewitching debut that explores the delicate line separating science from myth and creativity from madness. Last Things tells the story of Grace Davitt, an eight-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small lakeside town in Vermont. Her mother, Anna, an ornithologist, once saw a monster in this lake, which she believes may be a di...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780374184056
ISBN-10: 0374184054
Publication Date: 4/1999
Pages: 263
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Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
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DesertShaman avatar reviewed Last Things on + 203 more book reviews
A Story of a child coping with an unusual family...and being somewhat unusual herself. Although it's never declared, it is fairly evident that her mother is bipolar. In the course of a year, you follow her deconstruction. Not one of my favorite reads, but it is finishable.


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