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The scent of pine : a novel  Cover Image Book Book

The scent of pine : a novel / Lara Vapnyar.

Summary:

"A community college professor whose career has stagnated, and a wife and mother whose marriage has tumbled into a spiral of apathy and distrust, Lena is frustrated at the seeming "impossibility of happiness." As Lena makes her way to present a paper at a remote New England conference, a chance encounter with an old schoolmate a once average-seeming teenager who has since achieved international fame as a human rights advocate-catapults Lena into memories of their life changing summer together, as counselors at a summer camp in the backwoods of rural Russia during the massive cultural changes of perestroika in the 1980s"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781476712628
  • ISBN: 147671262X
  • Physical Description: 180 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Subject: College teachers > Fiction.
Teachers > Fiction.
Universities and colleges > Fiction.
Summer > Fiction.
Camp counselors > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
FICTION > Literary.
FICTION > General.
FICTION > Cultural Heritage.
College teachers
Roman
Amerikanisches Englisch
Russians > United States > Fiction.
Camps > Soviet Union > Fiction.
Midlife crisis > Fiction.
Secrets > Fiction.
Man-woman relationships > Fiction.
Genre: Love stories.
Love stories.
Fiction
Romance fiction
Love stories.
Romance fiction.
American fiction.

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