Perfect Reader
Overview
Flora Dempsey is the headstrong only child of Lewis Dempsey, a college professor and world famous critic. When Lewis passes away, Flora returns to her New England hometown to act as his literary executor. There, she finds herself responsible for a manuscript that he was secretly writing at the end of his life--love poems to a girlfriend Flora didn't know he had. As Flora is besieged by well-wishers and literary vultures alike, she tries to figure out how to navigate it all: the fate of the poems, the girlfriend who wants a place in her life, the wounds left by her parents' divorce, and her uncertain future. Brimming with energy, humor, and the elbow-patchy wisdom of Flora's still-vivid father, this enchanting debut is the uplifting story of a young woman striving to become the "perfect reader" of her father's life, as well as her own.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780307474803
- ISBN-10: 0307474801
- Publisher: Anchor Books
- Publish Date: July 2011
- Dimensions: 8.02 x 5.3 x 0.66 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.48 pounds
- Page Count: 288
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