This One Is Mine

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A Back Bay Book
"Afresh, flamboyantly witty new voice."
-HELEN FIELDING, AUTHOR OF BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY
"Maria Semple beautifully renders the twists and turns an overburdened heart can take."
-MARY McNAMARA, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"A triumphant debut."
-GIG! LEVANGIE GRAZER, AUTHOR OF THE STARTER WIFE
"A surprising and often hilarious novel about happiness and consequences."
-AMY SCRIBNER, BOOKPAGE
"Sassy and smart THIS ONE IS MINE is all about what money cannot buy."
-JEFFREY ANN GOUDIE, KANSAS CITY STAR
VIOLET PARRY HAS A PICTURE-PERFECT LIFE: a beautiful house, a successful husband, a darling daughter. Violet can speak French, quote Sondheim, and whip up dinner from the vegetables in her garden. She has everything under control — except her own happiness. All it takes is a chance encounter with Teddy Reyes, a roguish small-time bass player with a highly evolved sexuality, to open Violet's eyes to what she's missing and upend her life completely.
Maria Semple writes... Tovább

Fülszöveg

A Back Bay Book
"Afresh, flamboyantly witty new voice."
-HELEN FIELDING, AUTHOR OF BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY
"Maria Semple beautifully renders the twists and turns an overburdened heart can take."
-MARY McNAMARA, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"A triumphant debut."
-GIG! LEVANGIE GRAZER, AUTHOR OF THE STARTER WIFE
"A surprising and often hilarious novel about happiness and consequences."
-AMY SCRIBNER, BOOKPAGE
"Sassy and smart THIS ONE IS MINE is all about what money cannot buy."
-JEFFREY ANN GOUDIE, KANSAS CITY STAR
VIOLET PARRY HAS A PICTURE-PERFECT LIFE: a beautiful house, a successful husband, a darling daughter. Violet can speak French, quote Sondheim, and whip up dinner from the vegetables in her garden. She has everything under control — except her own happiness. All it takes is a chance encounter with Teddy Reyes, a roguish small-time bass player with a highly evolved sexuality, to open Violet's eyes to what she's missing and upend her life completely.
Maria Semple writes with comic brilliance in this smart, compassionate, wickedly funny take on our need for more — and the sometimes disastrous choices we make in the name of happiness.
MARIA SEMPLE wrote for television shows including Arresieci Development, Mad About You, and Ellen. She escaped from Los Angeles and lives vnth her family on an island off Seattle, where she is at work on her second novel. Vissza