Inflating a Dog

Eric Kraft

Original title: Inflating a dog

first published 2002 Picador, 2003 paperback 256 pages

"Ella Leroy dreams of escaping the dreary routine of her 1950s wife-and-mom suburban life in the beach town of Babbington. Without telling her husband, she enlists her son Peter and his locally notorious schoolmate Patti in a scheme: to buy a rundown clamboat and reinvent it as an elegant cruising vessel for summer people. But after Arcinella is purchased, Peter discovers that she is slowly sinking - and so each nig...

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Inflating a Dog paperback · 2003 · Picador · 256 pages · 9780312422219
Inflating a dog edition · 2002 · Picador USA · 242 pages

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