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The grammarians

Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins, share an obsession with words. As adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation begins to push them apart. Their fraying twinship finally shreds completely when the sisters go to war over custody of their most pr...

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Main Author: Schine, Cathleen (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Hudson, Ruth Irene tribute.
Identical twins > Fiction.
Sisters > Fiction.
Grammarians > Fiction.
Women journalists > Fiction.
Women poets > Fiction.
Twins > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Distribution of decedents' estates > Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Summary: Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins, share an obsession with words. As adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation begins to push them apart. Their fraying twinship finally shreds completely when the sisters go to war over custody of their most prized family heirloom: Merriam Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition.
Physical Description: 258 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9780374280116
0374280118
Author Notes: Cathleen Schine is the author of They May Not Mean to, But They Do ; The Three Weissmanns of Westport; and The Love Letter , among other novels. She has contributed to The New Yorker , The New York Review of Books , The New York Times Magazine , and The New York Times Book Review . She lives in Los Angeles.

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