The misfortune of Marion Palm : a novel
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New York : Alfred A Knopf, 2017.
Edition
First edition.
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xiii, 281 pages ; 22 cm
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION CULLIT 2017
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Published
New York : Alfred A Knopf, 2017.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English

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"A wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small fortune from her children's private school and makes a run for it, leaving behind her trust fund poet husband, his maybe-secret lover, her two daughters, and a school board who will do anything to find her. Marion Palm prefers not to think of herself as a thief but rather "a woman who embezzles." Over the years she has managed to steal $180,000 from her daughters' private school, money that has paid for European vacations, a Sub-Zero refrigerator, and perpetually unused state-of-the-art exercise equipment. But, now, when the school faces an audit, Marion pulls piles of rubber-banded cash from their basement hiding places and flees, leaving her family to grapple with the baffled detectives, the irate school board, and the mother-shaped hole in their house. Told from the points of view of Nathan, Marion's husband, heir to a long-diminished family fortune; Ginny, Marion's teenage daughter who falls helplessly in love at the slightest provocation; Jane, Marion's youngest who is obsessed with a missing person of her own; and Marion herself, on the lam--and hiding in plain sight"--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Culliton, E. (2017). The misfortune of Marion Palm: a novel (First edition.). Alfred A Knopf.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Culliton, Emily. 2017. The Misfortune of Marion Palm: A Novel. Alfred A Knopf.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Culliton, Emily. The Misfortune of Marion Palm: A Novel Alfred A Knopf, 2017.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Culliton, Emily. The Misfortune of Marion Palm: A Novel First edition., Alfred A Knopf, 2017.

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