false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1189442998m/708268.jpg 708268 8 <p> Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother moves into "his" house as well, it's war. </p> <p> Each heir wants the house. Yet to buy the other out, two siblings must team against one. Just as in girlhood, Corlis is torn between allying with the decent but fearful youngest and the iconoclastic eldest, who covets his legacy to destroy it. <i>A Perfectly Good Family</i> is a stunning examination of inheritance, literal and psychological: what we take from our parents, what we discard, and what we are stuck with, like it or not. </p> 280046 1996 A Perfectly Good Family: A Novel (P.S.) total:99|5:10|4:25|3:37|2:23|1:4| 99 311 187 23 4 0 false false Thu May 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 21:03:07 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 21:09:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jul 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 08:08:06 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 13:34:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 18:17:55 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 13:50:46 -0700 2009
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