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Title
Adam the King [May 20, 2008] Lewis, Jeffrey
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Author
Lewis, Jeffrey
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Binding
Hardcover
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Edition
First Edition
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Condition
New
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Pages
212
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Volumes
1
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Language
ENG
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Publisher
Other Press, New York
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Date
2008-05-20
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Bookseller's Inventory #
AhcF116116
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ISBN
9781590512845 / 1590512847
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Weight
0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
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Dimensions
8.44 x 5.5 x 0.79 in (21.44 x 13.97 x 2.01 cm)
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Library of Congress subjects
Weddings, Maine
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Library of Congress Catalog Number
2007028084
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Dewey Decimal Code
FIC
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Jeffrey Lewis
Jeffrey Lewis won two Emmys and many other honors as a writer and producer of Hill Street Blues. His "Meritocracy Quartet" is intended to chart the progress of a generation. The first book of the quartet, Meritocracy: A Love Story, won both the Independent Publishers Book Award for General Fiction and the ForeWord Book of the Year Silver Award for Fiction. He lives in Los Angeles and Castine, Maine.
Excerpt
Adam and Maisie had the wedding of the the year that year in Clement’s Cove. And they were no longer young. He was in his fifties and never been married. She’d been married once, for about twenty minutes to a Navajo chief outside Taos and later she adopted two little Chinese girls, but mostly she had lived alone. They invited everybody as if it were once in a lifetime. Their families that hardly knew each other and probably never would, old friends, newer friends, an ecumenical crowd, those who got rich and those who didn’t, those who invented something and those who played along, government guys, research guys, investment guys, TV guys, a few artists, a couple writers, doctors and lawyers and wives, ex-hippies who started country businesses and those whose best days were thirty years behind them. The meritocracy in all its multiform display. And they invited everyone in Clement’s Cove, too. All the year-rounders, Jeffrey Lewis the people who weren’t from away. A big tent, as the politicians used to say. And it was a very big tent. They had to clear trees to fit it on the land, a tent of Camelot or the Thousand and One Nights.
Media reviews
Library Journal
“[Lewis’s] marvelous ear for idiomatic speech is revealed as much through narration as in dialog. . . . Ultimately, public libraries should have the entire quartet in their collections.”
Los Angeles Times
“Lewis catches the thrill of proximity to America’s eastern WASP aristocracy to an uncomfortable degree: their studied vagueness, their heartiness, the aloofness that cannot be copied.”
The Plain Dealer
“ . . . an insightful and even beautiful writer . . .”
Portland Press Herald
“ . . . a writer with consummate skill . . . ”
About the author
Jeffrey Lewis
Jeffrey Lewis won two Emmys and many other honors as a writer and producer of" Hill Street Blues." His "Meritocracy Quartet" is intended to chart the progress of a generation. The first book of the quartet, "Meritocracy: A Love Story," won both the Independent Publishers Book Award for General Fiction and the "ForeWord "Book of the Year Silver Award for Fiction. He lives in Los Angeles and Castine, Maine.
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