Object Lessons

“A SMALL TRIUMPH . . . Elaborate and playful . . . Honest and deeply felt . . . Here is the Quindlen wit, the sharp eye for details of class and manners, the ardent reading of domestic lives.”
–The New York Times “Set in the 1960s, OBJECT LESSONS concerns three generations of a rich Irish clan who live in an established inner suburb of New York City. . . . The patriarch, John Scanlan, is a lively figure. . . . It is [the] daughter Maggie who is trying desperately to master some object lessons. . . . Quindlen is at her best writing about the dislocations of growing up, the blows a child does not see coming.”
–Time “Anna Quindlen’s first novel is about an experience that is the same for everyone and different for us the time when we suddenly see our family with an outsider’s eye and begin the separation that marks our growing up. . . . Quindlen knows that all the things we ever will be can be found in some forgotten fragment of family.”
–The Washington Post Book World A New York Times Notable Book
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