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Von Händler/Antiquariat, 2 Market Media.
Nancy Bachrach is living in Paris, selling deodorant to the French, when a freak accident kills her father aboard his cabin cruiser, the aptly dubbed Mr. Fix It, in her incongruously named hometown of Providence. Her mother, Lola, the self-proclaimed “center of the universe,” whose medical history reads like the chapter headings of a psychiatric manual, lies in a coma “on death’s waiting list.” Nancy rushes home and sits by her mother’s ventilator—thinking about Sunny von Bülow and eyeing the plug. Thus begins a family reunion with her brother, Ben (a piano prodigy and eventual surgeon who was born with three thumbs), and sister, Helen (the wild child, now an “abnormal psychologist”). This is a dark, hilarious tale of genius, madness, ineptitude, collateral damage, and hope—with an ending that’s improbable, as only the truth can be. Aching and tender, unflinching and wry, The Center of the Universe is a multi generational mother-daughter story—a splendid, funny, lyrical book about family, truth, memory, and the resilience of love. Hardcover, Ausgabe: First Edition, Format: Deckle Edge, Label: Knopf, Knopf, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2009-04-28, Freigegeben: 2009-04-28, Studio: Knopf, Verkaufsrang: 2375381.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Hazel Green Books.
Nancy Bachrach is living in Paris, selling deodorant to the French, when a freak accident kills her father aboard his cabin cruiser, the aptly dubbed Mr. Fix It, in her incongruously named hometown of Providence. Her mother, Lola, the self-proclaimed “center of the universe,” whose medical history reads like the chapter headings of a psychiatric manual, lies in a coma “on death’s waiting list.” Nancy rushes home and sits by her mother’s ventilator—thinking about Sunny von Bülow and eyeing the plug. Thus begins a family reunion with her brother, Ben (a piano prodigy and eventual surgeon who was born with three thumbs), and sister, Helen (the wild child, now an “abnormal psychologist”). This is a dark, hilarious tale of genius, madness, ineptitude, collateral damage, and hope—with an ending that’s improbable, as only the truth can be. Aching and tender, unflinching and wry, The Center of the Universe is a multi generational mother-daughter story—a splendid, funny, lyrical book about family, truth, memory, and the resilience of love. Hardcover, Ausgabe: First Edition, Format: Deckle Edge, Label: Knopf, Knopf, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2009-04-28, Freigegeben: 2009-04-28, Studio: Knopf, Verkaufsrang: 2375381.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Yankee Clipper Books [54992501], Windsor Locks, CT, U.S.A.
Book shows a small amount of wear to cover and binding. Some pages show signs of use.

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Family & Relationships, The Center of the Universe, The story is so improbable, it can only be true: A brilliant woman with a long history of mental illnesswho once proclaimed herself to be "the center of the universe" is miraculously cured by accidental carbon monoxidepoisoning aboard the family boat. Nancy Bachrach warns readers, Don't try this at home in her darkly humorous memoir about the second coming ofher mother the indomitable Lola, whose buried family secrets had been driving her crazy. Aching and tender, unflinching and wry, The Center of the Universe is a multigenerational mother-daughter storya splendid, funny, lyrical memoir about family, truth, and the resilience of love. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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