Local Girls

Alice Hoffman

earliest edition we have, 1999 Vintage, 2002 208 pages

Thorndike large print Americana series

Alice Hoffman evokes the world of the Samuelsons, a family torn apart by tragedy and divorce in a world of bad judgment and fierce attachments, disappointments and devotion. Hoffman charts the always unexpected progress of Gretel Samuelson from the time Gretel is a young girl already acquainted with betrayal and grief, until she finally leaves home. Gretel's sly, funny, knowing perspective is at the heart of this co...

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Editions we hold

Local Girls edition · 2013 · Penguin Random House · 208 pages · 9781446444740
Mes meilleures amies edition · 2007 · Archipoche · 181 pages · 9782352870289
Mes meilleures amies edition · 2006 · Éd. de la Seine · 205 pages · 9782738220844
El Camino a Casa hardcover · 2004 · Roca Editorial · 192 pages · 9788496284289
Local Girls edition · 2002 · Vintage · 208 pages · 9780099565277
Local girls edition · 2000 · Berkley Books · 197 pages · 9780425174340
Local girls edition · 2000 · Vintage · 197 pages
Local Girls paperback · 2000 · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporate · 176 pages · 9780099282945
Local Girls edition · 2000 · Sagebrush Corporation · 9780613237352
Local girls edition · 1999 · Thorndike Press · 208 pages
Local Girls (Nova Audio Books) audiobook · 1999 · Nova Audio Books · 9781567408386
Local Girls audiobook · 1999 · Brilliance Audio Unabridged · 9781567404265

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