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008			170829s2018 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2017037646
020			_a9780525508717 (hardcover : acidfree paper)
020			_z9780525508724 (ebook)
040			_aDLC _beng _cDLC _erda _dDLC
042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aPS3602.L883 _bH54 2018
082	0	0	_a813/.6 _223
084			_aFIC044000 _aFIC045000 _aFIC019000 _2bisacsh
100	1		_aBlundell, Judy, _eauthor. _912414
245	1	4	_aThe high season : _ba novel / _cJudy Blundell.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bRandom House, _c2018.
300			_a396 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"This story opens on Memorial Day weekend in a seaside town on Long Island, where Ruthie, her still-adored ex-husband Mike, and the couple's sullen fifteen year old daughter Jem are packing up the last bits of their household, awaiting the yearly arrival of a wealthy renter from Manhattan. It is what Jem calls "the summer bummer"; her parents own a beautiful house that they have renovated by hand from top to bottom, but which they secretly can only afford to keep by leasing it out during the best part of the year. Every year they must do this and every year it gets harder, amassing a pile-up of low-grade resentments from everyone in the family. And thus begins the summer when every possible thing that can go wrong in Ruthie's life seems to do so. Her relationship with Mike, who she lives in constant hope of rekindling, seems about to disappear for good. The job she loves, as the underpaid and undervalued director of the local arts museum, is under siege from a coterie of rich women from the city, who want to use it as an opportunity for social climbing. An old flame who once broke her heart and betrayed her is back on the scene, causing Ruthie to re-evaluate their romance, and in the midst of it all her teenage daughter Jem is possibly involved in a dangerous and destructive relationship of her own, a situation Ruthie may be discovering too late.."-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		7	_aFICTION / Contemporary Women. _2bisacsh _9802
650		7	_aFICTION / Family Life. _2bisacsh _91509
650		7	_aFICTION / Literary. _2bisacsh _9659
655		0	_aDomestic fiction. _961
906			_a7 _bcbc _corignew _d1 _eecip _f20 _gy-gencatlg
942			_2ddc _cBOOK
999			_c28546 _d28546