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The carriage house a novel

After their wealthy father awakens from a stroke to find them less extraordinary than he remembered, three former tennis champion daughters resolve to prove themselves by fixing up a carriage house their grandfather built.

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Main Author:	Hall, Louisa, 1982-
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Scribner, 2013.
Edition:	1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Subjects:	Families > Fiction. Children of the rich > Fiction. Domestic fiction > Pennsylvania.
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Summary:	After their wealthy father awakens from a stroke to find them less extraordinary than he remembered, three former tennis champion daughters resolve to prove themselves by fixing up a carriage house their grandfather built.
Physical Description:	281 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:	9781451688634 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1451688636 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781451688641 (trade paper : alk. paper) 1451688644 (trade paper : alk. paper) 9781451688658 (ebook : alk. paper) 1451688652 (ebook : alk. paper)
Author Notes:	Louisa Hall is an American novelist and poet. She was born in 1982, and raised in Philadelphia. After graduating from Harvard with a BA in English, she played squash professionally and worked in a research lab at the Albert Einstein Hospital. She holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Texas at Austin, where she currently teaches literature and creative writing, and supervises a poetry workshop at the Austin Psychiatric Hospital. Hall is the author of the novels Speak and The Carriage House, and her poems have been published in The New Republic, Southwest Review, and other journals.