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Drowning Ruth [electronic resource] / Christina Schwarz.

Summary:

Worn out from nursing soldiers at a Milwaukee hospital and struggling to recover from a traumatic love affair, Amanda Starkey returns to her family's rural Wisconsin farm to stay with her beloved sister, Mattie, and a young niece, Ruth. An Oprah Book Club selection and bestseller in hardcover, Drowning Ruth, now in paperback, is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart. Schwarz's first novel explores themes of family love, sibling rivalry, duty, loyalty, and a possible murder.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780307484055 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 030748405X (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource.
  • Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, 2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Oprah's book club."
Subject: Drowning victims > Fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
Farm life > Fiction.
Sisters > Fiction.
Wisconsin > Fiction.
Genre: Domestic fiction.
Electronic books.
Historical fiction.


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