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A generational novel which opens memorably in a fur storage house in Los Angeles with its American protagonist as a boy trying on Marilyn Monroe’s coat. When he grows up, Stephen goes to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, and stays on to avoid the draft and Vietnam.  He marries an Englishwoman, and... read more

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  1. Linda Grant (Author)

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Publisher: Scribner
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Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 9781451617405
Page Count: 325

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