Crooked Little Heart

by Anne Lamott

Overview

With the same winning combination of humor and honesty that marked her recent nonfiction bestsellers, Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott's new novel gives us an exuberant, richly absorbing portrait of a family for whom the joys and sorrows of everyday life are magnified under the glare of the unexpected.

Rosie Ferguson, in the first bloom of young womanhood, is obsessed with tournament tennis. Her mother is a recovering alcoholic still grieving the death of her first husband; her stepfather, a struggling writer, is wrestling with his own demons. And now Rosie finds that her athletic gifts, once a source of triumph and escape, place her in peril, as a shadowy man who stalks her from the bleachers seems to be developing an obsession of his own...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780385491808
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/18/1998
Series:	Niagara Large Print Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	1,084,723
Product dimensions:	5.19(w) x 7.98(h) x 0.71(d)
Lexile:	1010L (what's this?)

About the Author

Anne Lamott is the New York Times bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow; Small Victories; Stitches; Some Assembly Required; Grace (Eventually); Plan B; Traveling Mercies; Bird by Bird; Operating Instructions, and the forthcoming Hallelujah Anyway. She is also the author of several novels, including Imperfect Birds and Rosie. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California.

Hometown:

Fairfax, California

Date of Birth:

1954

Place of Birth:

San Francisco, California

Education:

Attended Goucher College in Maryland before dropping out to write

Editorial Reviews

"Pulses with an emotional generosity that is rare."- San Francisco Chronicle

"Eloquent, detailed, emotionally honest... Lamott deserves praise for telling it like it is."- People

"Crooked Little Heart... incapacitated me for several days.  I could do little else but move from one reading post to another throughout my house and yard, and follow the continuing story of Rosie Ferguson in the summer of her 13th year.... The writing is threaded with precise imagery, tenderness, and high humor."- L.A. Weekly

"Lamott's descriptive talents are considerable and... consistently evocative.  Crooked Little Heart is likely to win [her] the huge and appreciative audience her masterful fiction demands." - Boston Globe

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