Record ID | marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part40.utf8:222562977:2274 |
Source | Library of Congress |
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001 2013020210
003 DLC
005 20140726082618.0
008 130608s2013 mau 000 1 eng
010 $a 2013020210
020 $a9780544061033 (Paperback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$dDLC$erda
042 $apcc
043 $ae-uk-st
050 00 $aPR6107.I4665$bW45 2013
082 04 $a823.92$223
084 $aFIC019000$aFIC027040$2bisacsh
100 1 $aGillies, Andrea.
245 14 $aThe White Lie /$cAndrea Gillies.
250 $aFirst Mariner Books edition.
264 1 $aBoston :$bMariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,$c[2013]
300 $a448 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"'One hot summer day, Michael Salter, nineteen-year-old scion of a posh Highland family, disappears. When his childlike aunt claims she drowned him during a fight, the family closes ranks. No police. No memorial service. No titbits for village gossips. A decade of deceit begins." -- Financial Times The Salter family orbits around Peattie House, their crumbling Scottish estate filled with threadbare furniture, patrician memories, and all the secrets that go with them. While they are gathered for their grandmother's seventieth birthday, someone breaks the silence. The web begins to unravel. But what is the white lie? How many others are built upon it? How many lives have been changed because of it? Only one person knows the whole truth. From beyond the grave, Michael loops back into the past until we see, beyond perception and memory, how deeply our decisions resound, and just what is the place, and price, of grandeur. Andrea Gillies brings us inside a big house and a great family, with an elegantly written novel of eccentric characters, twists and turns and redirects, and shocking revelations'"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aTruthfulness and falsehood$vFiction.
650 0 $aFamily secrets$vFiction.
650 0 $aLife change events$vFiction.
651 0 $aHighlands (Scotland)$vFiction.
655 0 $aDomestic fiction.
650 7 $aFICTION / Literary.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Romance / Gothic.$2bisacsh
655 7 $aSuspense fiction.$2gsafd