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Going away party

a novel

By PEDERSEN, LAURA

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"Jess MacGuire. an otherwise "good Catholic girl", invites an older man into her home while her family is away on vacation. Unaware that he has his own agenda, she makes it too comfortable for him to leave. Comic in spirit, but serious at heart, Going Away Party stars a girl who is almost a woman and a man who has just lost his wife. Together they find an unexpected bond, wit battling wisdom in spiralling interplay. This is a believable, hilarious encounter that no reader will forget."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN
978-1-58654-010-4
Publisher
Ashland, Or. : Story Line Press, c2001.


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Library Journal

Reviewed on April 15, 2001

This first novel by Pederson, a New York Times columnist, nonfiction author, and sometimes stand-up comedienne, is a May-December slacker romance (or maybe the term is "hook-up"). Twenty-year-old Jessica MacGuire is home alone studying for a calculus final while her family is on a camping vacation. She needs to pass to graduate from college, but with no job prospects the future looms darkly. A knock at the door brings in an ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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