Bibliographical Description
88.02.W046: Pei – Family Resemblances
[within compartment of triple rules 155 x 87 mm] Family | Resemblances | [rule 12 mm] | Lowry Pei | [rule 12 mm] | Vintage Contemporaries | Vintage Books | A Division of Random House | New York
136 leaves, pp. [4] 1–3 4-14 15 16-21 22 23-30 31 32-41 42 43-49 50 51-62 63 64-74 75 76-87 88 89-101 102 103-120 121 122-133 134 135-151 152 153-169 170 171-186 187 188-204 205 206-222 223 224-238 239 240-252 253 254-264 [4]
First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, February 1988
Contents: π1a author photo with blurbs, π1b blank, π2a title, π2b imprint, 1 fly-title, 2 blank, 3-264 Family Resemblances, χ1a about the author, χ1b blank, χ2a Vintage Contemporaries order form, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries list.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Rick Lovell; interior author photo by John McClure.
Copyright: © 1986. ISBN: 0-394-75528-6. Price: $6.95. Family Resemblances was first published by Random House 1986.
Copies: JDP 1.1
Blurbs
- (front cover) A remarkable first novel. – The New York Times Book Review
- Karen Moss—fifteen and a half, recovering from her first real crush on a boy—is sent to spend the summer with her Aunt Augusta, a beautiful, thirty-five-year-old insomniac who keeps the windows of her old Buick closed so that people will think it’s air-conditioned. During the summer Karen leanrs many things—how to drive a car, how to drink wine, the appeal of baseball and, not least, the many forms that love can take and the demands it makes.
- Mr. Pei’s clean, limpid, almost translucent prose renders the perfect plot of Family Resemblances all but invisible as small events build to genuine suspense….The complicated losses and gains…make for good fiction and plenty of ambiguity. Or, as Augusta told Karen at the beginning of the summer, ‘Things are not anywhere near as black and white as you think, you’ll find that out someday if you have the nerve to pay attention.’ – The New York Times Book Review
- Engages the reader, even brings tears. – Chicago Tribune
- Captures the glory and anguish of adolescence. – Harvard Magazine