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Crooked Little Heart

A Novel

A Novel

A Novel

By Anne Lamott

By Anne Lamott

By Anne Lamott

By Anne Lamott

By Anne Lamott
Read by Rebecca Lowman

By Anne Lamott
Read by Rebecca Lowman

Best Seller
Paperback $15.95

May 18, 1998 | ISBN 9780385491808

Ebook $11.99

Nov 16, 2011 | ISBN 9780307806734

Audiobook Download $22.50

Mar 19, 2019 | 779 Minutes

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    About Crooked Little Heart

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of Bird by Bird comes an exuberant, richly absorbing novel about a family for whom the joys and sorrows of everyday life are magnified under the glare of the unexpected. • “Eloquent, detailed, emotionally honest… Lamott deserves praise for telling it like it is.” —People

    Rosie Ferguson, in the first bloom of young womanhood, is obsessed with tournament tennis. Her mother is a recovering alcoholic still grieving the death of her first husband; her stepfather, a struggling writer, is wrestling with his own demons. And now Rosie finds that her athletic gifts, once a source of triumph and escape, place her in peril, as a shadowy man who stalks her from the bleachers seems to be developing an obsession of his own…

    About Crooked Little Heart

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of Bird by Bird comes an exuberant, richly absorbing novel about a family for whom the joys and sorrows of everyday life are magnified under the glare of the unexpected. • “Eloquent, detailed, emotionally honest… Lamott deserves praise for telling it like it is.” —People

    Rosie Ferguson, in the first bloom of young womanhood, is obsessed with tournament tennis. Her mother is a recovering alcoholic still grieving the death of her first husband; her stepfather, a struggling writer, is wrestling with his own demons. And now Rosie finds that her athletic gifts, once a source of triumph and escape, place her in peril, as a shadowy man who stalks her from the bleachers seems to be developing an obsession of his own…

    About Crooked Little Heart

    With the same brilliant combination of humor and warmth that marked Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, her two bestselling works of nonfiction, Anne Lamott now gives us an exuberant richly absorbing portrait of a family for whom the joys and sorrows of everyday life are magnified under the glare of the unexpected.

    The Fergusons make their home in a small California town where life is supposed to resemble paradise, but for thirteen-year-old Rosie (last seen in Lamott’s beloved novel Rosie), reality is a bit harsher.  Her mother, a recovering alcoholic, is still beset by grief over the early death of her first husband.  Rosie’s stepfather is a struggling writer plagued by doubts and hilarious paranoia. And Rosie, aching in the bloom of young womanhood and obsessed with tournament tennis, finds that her athletic gifts, initially a source of triumph, now place her in peril, as a shadowy man who stalks her from the bleachers seems to be developing an obsession of his own.

    Written with enormous emotional honesty, inhabited by superbly realized characters, riotously funny and wonderfully suspenseful, Crooked Little Heart is Anne Lamott writing at the height of her considerable powers.

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    About Anne Lamott

    Anne Lamott is the author of twenty books, including the New York Times bestsellers Help, Thanks, Wow; Dusk, Night, Dawn; Traveling Mercies; and Bird by Bird, as well as seven novels. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee… More about Anne Lamott

    About Anne Lamott

    Anne Lamott is the author of twenty books, including the New York Times bestsellers Help, Thanks, Wow; Dusk, Night, Dawn; Traveling Mercies; and Bird by Bird, as well as seven novels. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee… More about Anne Lamott

    About Anne Lamott

    Anne Lamott is the author of twenty books, including the New York Times bestsellers Help, Thanks, Wow; Dusk, Night, Dawn; Traveling Mercies; and Bird by Bird, as well as seven novels. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee… More about Anne Lamott

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $15.95
    Published by Anchor
    May 18, 1998 | 336 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780385491808

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Anchor
    Nov 16, 2011 | 336 Pages | ISBN 9780307806734

    Category: Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $22.50
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Mar 19, 2019 | 779 Minutes | ISBN 9780593150221

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    Praise

    “Pulses with an emotional generosity that is rare.” —San Francisco Chronicle

    “Eloquent, detailed, emotionally honest… Lamott deserves praise for telling it like it is.” —People

    “Crooked Little Heart    … incapacitated me for several days.  I could do little else but move from one reading post to another throughout my house and yard, and follow the continuing story of Rosie Ferguson in the summer of her 13th year…. The writing is threaded with precise imagery, tenderness, and high humor.” —L.A. Weekly

    “Lamott’s descriptive talents are considerable and… consistently evocative. Crooked Little Heart is likely to win [her] the huge and appreciative audience her masterful fiction demands.” —Boston Globe

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