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  • Published: 18 May 1998
  • ISBN: 9780385491808
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $39.99

Crooked Little Heart

A Novel




NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of Bird by Bird comes an exuberant, richly absorbing novel about a family for whom the joys and sorrows of everyday life are magnified under the glare of the unexpected. • "Eloquent, detailed, emotionally honest... Lamott deserves praise for telling it like it is." —People

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...

  • Published: 18 May 1998
  • ISBN: 9780385491808
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $39.99

About the author

Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott lives with her son, Sam, in northern California. She is the author of five books, including the novels Hard Laughter, Rosie, Joe Jones, and All New People. Her last book, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year, was published by Pantheon in 1993.

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