Lark and Termite

English

Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.

ISBN: 0375701931

EAN: 9780375701931

Category: Fiction / Historical/Fiction / Family Life/Fiction / War & Military/

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Release Date: 01/12/2010

Synopsis: National Bestseller New York Times Notable Book Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Postand Los Angeles TimesBest Book of the Year Lark and Termiteis a rich, wonderfully alive novel about seventeen year old Lark and her brother, Termite, living in West Virginia in the 1950s. Their mother, Lola, is absent, while their aunt, Nonie, raises them as her own, and Termites father, Corporal Robert Leavitt, is caught up in the early days of the Korean War. Award-winning author Jayne Anne Phillips intertwines family secrets, dreams, and ghosts in a story about the love that unites us all.

Awards: Library Journal Best Books of the Year – null  National Book Awards – null  National Book Critics Circle Awards – null  New York Times Notable Books of the Year – null  Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year – null 

Lark and Termite

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.92 inches

Width: 5.19 inches

Length: 7.95 inches

Weight: 11.53 oz

Pages: 304