All we ever wanted was everything : a novel
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Published
New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2008.
Format
Book
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780385524018, 0385524013
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 25 cm
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Published
New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2008.
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
ISBN
9780385524018, 0385524013
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Description
When Paul Miller’s pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she’s been waiting years for — until she learns, via messengered letter, that her husband is divorcing her (for her tennis partner!) and cutting her out of the new fortune. Meanwhile, four hundred miles south in Los Angeles, the Millers’ older daughter, Margaret, has been dumped by her newly famous actor boyfriend and left in the lurch by an investor who promised to revive her fledgling post-feminist magazine, Snatch. Sliding toward bankruptcy and dogged by creditors, she flees for home where her younger sister Lizzie, 14, is struggling with problems of her own. Formerly chubby, Lizzie has been enjoying her newfound popularity until some bathroom graffiti alerts her to the fact that she’s become the school slut. The three Miller women retreat behind the walls of their Georgian colonial to wage battle with divorce lawyers, debt collectors, drug-dealing pool boys, mean girls, country club ladies, evangelical neighbors, their own demons, and each other, and in the process they become achingly sympathetic characters we can’t help but root for, even as the world they live in epitomizes everything wrong with the American Dream.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Brown, J. (2008). All we ever wanted was everything: a novel . Spiegel & Grau.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Brown, Janelle. 2008. All We Ever Wanted Was Everything: A Novel. New York: Spiegel & Grau.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Brown, Janelle. All We Ever Wanted Was Everything: A Novel New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2008.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Brown, Janelle. All We Ever Wanted Was Everything: A Novel Spiegel & Grau, 2008.
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