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Shadow Baby

A Novel

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Clara first spies him through the crack in the stained-glass window of her church, lighting a string of handmade lanterns in the Adirondack woods. A lone old man, Georg Kominsky moves stealthily among the shadow world of his hanging, glittering creations.In Alison McGhee's stunning novel Shadow Baby, eleven-year-old Clara is struggling to find the truth about her missing father and grandfather and her twin sister, dead at birth, but her mother steadfastly refuses to talk about these people who are lost to her daughter. When Clara begins interviewing Georg Kominsky for a school biography assignment, she finds that he is equally reticent about his own concealed history. Precocious and imaginative, the girl invents version upon version of Mr. Kominsky's past, just as she invents lives for the people missing from her own shadowy past.The journey of discovery that these two oddly matched people embark upon is at the heart of this beautiful story about friendship and communion, about discovering what matters most in life, and about the search to find the missing pieces of ourselves. McGhee's prose glistens with shrewd truth and wild imaginings, creating a fine novel that will reverberate in the hearts and minds of readers long after the book is finished.From the Hardcover edition.

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Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pages
256

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winterschwester: Roman
2011-09-01, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
Cover of: Shadow Baby
Shadow Baby
2009, Crown Publishing Group
E-book in English
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Shadow Baby: A Novel
September 22, 2009, Three Rivers Press
Paperback
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Shadow Baby
2009, Crown Publishing Group, The
in English
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Shadow baby
2009, Three Rivers Press
in English - 1st Three Rivers Press ed.
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Shadow Baby (Today Show Book Club #14)
August 14, 2003, Picador
Paperback in English - 2 edition
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Shadow Baby
Jul 06, 2001, Picador
paperback
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Shadow baby
2000, Harmony Books
in English - 1st ed.

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Library of Congress
, PS3563.C36378 S53 2009

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
256
Dimensions
8 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
Weight
7.8 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24087771M
ISBN 10
0307462285
ISBN 13
9780307462282
LCCN
2010294297

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