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Author:	Suzanne Berne	Format:	--
Publisher:	Henry Holt & Co	ISBN-10:	0805055800
Edition Description:	Reprint	ISBN-13:	9780805055801
Educational Level:	--	Product Type:	--
Publication Year:	--	Subject:	--
Language:	--	Condition:	Good

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In the Washington, D.C. suburbs during the summer of Watergate, a young girl named Marsha, upset by her parents' divorce, thinks she has pieced together the clues to the murder of a neighborhood boy.
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Length:	285 pages
Height:	7.5 in.
Width:	5.0 in.
Thickness:	0.8 in.
Weight:	10.4 oz.

Publisher's Note
1973: As her community focuses on the murder/molestation of a 12-year-old boy, it seems to young Marcia that everyone is committing some kind of crime: her father who has deserted them; her shoplifting siblings--even the president of the United States! An auspicious debut novel by a young writer who will remind readers of Anne Lamott and Anne Tyler. Crime in the Neighborhood centers on a headline event-- the molestation and murder of a twelve-year-old boy in a Washington, D.C., suburb. At the time of the murder, 1973, Marsha was nine years old and as an adult she still remembers that summer as a time when murder and her own family's upheaval were intertwined. Everyone, it seemed to Marsha at the time, was committing crimes. Her father deserted his family to take up with her mother's younger sister. Her teenage brother and sister were smoking and shoplifting, and her mother was "flirting" with Mr. Green, the new next-door neighbor. Even the president of the United States seemed to be a crook. But it is Marsha's own suspicions about who committed this crime that has the town up in arms and reveals what happens when fear runs wild.
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"...'A Crime in the Neighborhood' takes its time telling one girl's story, and in doing so paints a true, rich picture of the slow erosion of illusion that's at the heart of growing up....[T]he young Marsha and her mother are perfectly wrought, portrayed with all the tenderness and bitterness of mothers and daughters. And in her portrayal of a child's difficult progress through the minefield of disillusionment, Berne shows herself to be a writer of deep and delicate perception." Boston Book Review - Kate Tuttle (06/19/1997) "Certainly the specifically literary pleasures of this book are many. But I think 'A Crime in the Neighborhood' feels familiar mainly because so much of it feels true. Although the cruelties that generations can inflict on each other may be freshly rendered here, we can all recognize them far too well." New York Times Book Review - Jacqueline Carey (07/20/1997)

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Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0805055800
Title : A Crime in the Neighborhood: A Novel
EAN : 9780805055801
Authors : Suzanne Berne
Binding : Paperback
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Publication Date : 1998-07-15
Pages : 304
List Price (MSRP) : 15.00
Height : 0.8000 inches
Width : 5.0000 inches
Length : 7.4000 inches
Weight : 0.5000 pounds
Keywords : General AAS, Contemporary, General, Paperback, Printed Books
Condition : Good
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