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Love may fail a novel

Escaping her ritzy Florida life and her cheating pornographer husband, Portia Kane returns to the South Jersey home of her youth and resolves to save herself by assisting a beloved English teacher who has retired after a traumatic incident.

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Main Author: Quick, Matthew, 1973-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
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High school teachers > Fiction.
Self-realization in women > Fiction.
Marital conflict > Fiction.
Man-woman relationships > Fiction.
Nuns > Fiction.
New Jersey > Fiction.
Black humor.
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Summary:Escaping her ritzy Florida life and her cheating pornographer husband, Portia Kane returns to the South Jersey home of her youth and resolves to save herself by assisting a beloved English teacher who has retired after a traumatic incident.
Physical Description:401 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:9780062285560 (hardcover)
0062285564 (hardcover)
Author Notes:Matthew Quick graduated with a double-majored in English and secondary education from La Salle University in 1996. He taught literature and film at Haddonfield Memorial High School in New Jersey for several years, before leaving in 2004 to become a fiction writer. He received his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Goddard College in 2007. He writes for young adults and adults. His young adult books include Sorta Like a Rock Star, Boy21, and Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock. His adult books include The Silver Linings Playbook, which was made into an Oscar-winning film, and The Good Luck of Right Now.

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