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Author Lamott, Anne.

Title Hard laughter : a novel / by Anne Lamott.

Publication Info. San Francisco : North Point Press, [1987]
©1980

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Location Call No. Status
 Wethersfield Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC LAMOTT    Check Shelf
Description 290 pages ; 21 cm
Note Originally published by Viking Press, New York, 1980.
Summary Jennifer is twenty three when her beloved father, Wallace, is diagnosed with a brain tumor. This catastrophic discovery sets off Anne Lamott's unexpectedly sweet and funny first novel, which is made dramatic not so much by the course of Wallace's illness as by the emotional wake it sweeps under Jen and her brothers, self contained Ben and Feckless, lovable Randy. With characteristic affection and dead on accuracy, Lamott sketches this offbeat family and their nearest and dearest as they draw ever closer in the intimacy Jen prizes among the other estimable things: good music, good hard laughter, good sex, good industry, and good books."
Subject Cancer -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
Brain -- Tumors -- Patients -- Fiction.
Siblings -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Brain -- Tumors -- Patients. (OCoLC)fst00837683
Brothers and sisters. (OCoLC)fst00839671
Cancer -- Patients -- Family relationships. (OCoLC)fst00845422
Fathers and daughters. (OCoLC)fst00921890
Genre/Form Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.
ISBN 0865472807 (alk. paper)
9780865472808 (alk. paper)
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