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001			on1227976397
003			OCoLC
005			20210914152736.0
008			210329s2021 nyu e 000 1 eng
010			_a 2021003312
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCO _dOCLCF _dOQX _dTCH _dGL4 _dUAP _dNFG
019			_a1265406266
020			_a9781524799410 _q(hardcover ; _qacid-free paper)
020			_a1524799416 _q(hardcover ; _qacid-free paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)1227976397 _z(OCoLC)1265406266
042			_apcc
092			_aWHITTALL _bZOE
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aWhittall, Zoe, _eauthor. _9206336
245	1	4	_aThe spectacular : _ba novel / _cZoe Whittall.
250			_aFirst U.S. edition.
263			_a2109
264		1	_aNew York : _bBallantine Books, _c2021.
300			_a354 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"Three generations of women strive for real freedom in this startling, provocative novel exploring sexuality, gender, and maternal ambivalence, from the acclaimed author of The Best Kind of People. It's 1997 and Missy's band has finally hit the big time as they tour across America. At twenty-two years old, Missy gets on stage every night and plays the song about her absent mother that made the band famous. Missy is the only girl in the band and she's determined to party just as hard as everyone else, loving and leaving someone in every town. But then a forgotten party favor strands her at the border. Fortysomething Carola is just surfacing from a sex scandal at the yoga center where she has been living when she sees her daughter, Missy, for the first time in ten years--on the cover of a music magazine. Ruth is eighty-three and planning her return to the Turkish seaside village where she spent her childhood. But when her granddaughter Missy winds up crashing at her house, she decides it's time that the strong and stubborn women in her family find a way to understand each other again. In this sharply observed novel, Zoe Whittall captures three very different women who struggle to build an authentic life. Definitions of family, romance, gender, and love will radically change as they seek out lives that are nothing less than spectacular"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aWomen _vFiction. _948213
650		0	_aMothers and daughters _vFiction. _91062
650		0	_aCellists _vFiction. _980082
650		0	_aRock groups _vFiction. _958045
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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