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 Author Name: Binchy, Maeve
Title: This Year it Will be Different A Christmas Treasury
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
Edition: First Edition (?); First Printing
Publisher: New York Delacorte Press 1996
ISBN Number: 0385315031 / 9780385315036
Seller ID: 6
Appears to have a plastic film over the letters. Small tear on the rear edge of the dust cover. Doesn't seem to have been read. ; Literature & Fiction; 0.75 x 8.25 x 5.50; 210 pages; "This Year It Will Be Different", a stunning new work that brings us the magic and spirit of Christmas in fifteen stories filled with Maeve Binchy's trademark wit, charm, and sheer storytelling genius. In "A Typical Irish Christmas, " a grieving New York widower heads for a holiday in Ireland and finds an unexpected destination. The title story "This Year It Will Be Different" involves a woman with a complacent husband and grown children who are entering a season that can forever alter her life, and theirs. In "Pulling Together, " a teacher not yet out of her twenties sees her affair with a married man at a turning point as Christmas Eve approaches. And in the delightful tale "The Hard Core, " the four most recalcitrant residents of a nursing home are left alone at Christmas with the owner's daughter in charge. The stories in This Year It Will Be Different powerfully evoke many lives--step-families grappling with ex's, long-married couples faced with in-law problems, a wandering husband choosing between "the other woman" and his wife, a child caught in grown-up tugs-of-war. The time of year may be magical, imbued with meaning, the situations are universal, Maeve Binchy makes us care about them all.
Christmas Short Stories Binchy, Maeve 0385315031
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