The Great Perhaps

Joe Meno

first published 2009 W. W. Norton & Co., 2009 414 pages

The sky is falling for the Caspers, a family of cowards: for Jonathan, a paleontologist, searching in vain for a prehistoric giant squid; for his wife, Madeline, an animal behaviorist with a failing experiment; for their daughter, Amelia, a disappointed teenage revolutionary; for her younger sister, Thisbe, on a frustrated search for God; and for grandfather Henry, who wants to disappear, limiting himself to thirteen...

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Great Perhaps paperback · 2011 · Picador USA · 416 pages · 9780330512480
The Great Perhaps hardcover · 2010 · Picador USA · 9780330512473
Great Perhaps edition · 2010 · Pan Macmillan · 9780330519533
Great Perhaps edition · 2010 · Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 432 pages · 9780393304565
Great Perhaps edition · 2010 · Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 416 pages · 9780393071375
The Great Perhaps edition · 2009 · W. W. Norton & Co. · 414 pages · 9780393067965

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