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The apothecary

Follows a fourteen-year-old American girl whose life unexpectedly transforms when she moves to London in 1952 and gets swept up in a race to save the world from nuclear war.

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Main Author: Meloy, Maile
Other Authors: Schoenherr, Ian (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, c2011.
Subjects:
Cold War > Young adult fiction.
Alchemy > Young adult fiction.
Adventure and adventurers > Young adult fiction.
London (England) > Young adult fiction.
Great Britain > History > Elizabeth II, 1952- > Young adult fiction.
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Summary:Follows a fourteen-year-old American girl whose life unexpectedly transforms when she moves to London in 1952 and gets swept up in a race to save the world from nuclear war.
Physical Description:353 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:9780399256271 (hbk.)
039925627X (hbk.)
Author Notes:Maile Meloy was born in Helena, Montana on January 1, 1972. She received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College and an M.F.A. in fiction from the University of California, Irvine. Her works include Liars and Saints, A Family Daughter, and The Apothecary. She has won numerous awards including The Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction for her story, Aqua Boulevard, in 2001; the PEN/Malamud Award for Half in Love in 2003; and the California Book Awards Silver Medal for Fiction for Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It. She has also received the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004. In 2007, she was chosen as one of Granta's 21 Best Young American Novelists.

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