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To the new owners a Martha's Vineyard memoir

"In the 1970s, Madeleine Blais' in-laws purchased a vacation house on Martha's Vineyard for the exorbitant sum of $80,000. 2.2 miles down a poorly marked, one lane dirt road, the house was better termed a shack--it had no electricity, no modern plumbing, the roof leaked, and mice had invaded the wal...

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Main Author: Blais, Madeleine (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Blais, Madeleine > Homes and haunts > Massachusetts > Martha's Vineyard.
Vacation homes > Massachusetts > Martha's Vineyard.
Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) > Social life and customs.
Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) > Biography.
Autobiographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Blue gold
  • The shack
  • Turn right, turn left
  • The new house
  • Summer notes
  • The Jaws effect
  • Operating instructions
  • The ideal guest
  • Mr. Ulf, famous writer
  • Phil
  • What Kay Graham brought to the table
  • Boiling the Pope
  • "She is not so young now"
  • Time to leave
  • Great dark cattle
  • At rest.

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