Blessings : a novel / Anna Quindlen.
A teenage couple drives up, late at night, headlights out, to Blessings, the estate owned by Lydia Blessing. They leave a box and drive away, and in this instant, the world of Blessings is changed forever. Skip Cuddy, caretaker of the estate, finds a baby asleep in the box and decids he wants to keep her. Matriarch Lydia Blessing, for her own reasons, decides to help him.
The story of Skip Cuddy, the Blessings caretaker, who finds a baby asleep in that box and decides he wants to keep her, and of matriarch Lydia Blessing, who, for her own reasons, decides to help him, Blessings explores how the secrets of the past affect decisions and lives in the present; what makes a person, a life, legitimate or illegitimate, and who decides; the unique resources people find in themselves and in a community. This is a powerful novel of love, redemption, and personal change by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer about whom The Washington Post Book World said, "Quindlen knows that all the things we ever will be can be found in some forgotten fragment of family."
Record details
- ISBN: 0375502238
- ISBN: 0812969812
- ISBN: 9780375502231
- ISBN: 9780812969818
- Physical Description: 226 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2002]
- Copyright: ©2002
Content descriptions
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.3 13 65578. |
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| Subject: | Administration of estates > Fiction. Ex-convicts > Fiction. Foundlings > Fiction. Legacies > Fiction. Women landowners > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
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- 87 of 89 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 3 of 3 copies available at Johnston County Affiliated Libraries. (Show)
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- 2 current holds with 89 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Kenly Public Library | FIC Quindlen (Text) | 38950608855435 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Public Library of Johnston County and Smithfield | FIC Quindlen (Text) | 38950610746143 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Selma Public Library | FIC Quindlen (Text) | 38950611193584 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library | F QUINDLEN (Text) | 39493104366093 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Albertson Community Library | AFIC QUI (Text) | 30372100385522 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Albertson Community Library | PBF QUI (Text) | 30372102033906 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Alleghany Public Library | F QUINDLEN (Text) | 40599000515786 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Ashe County Public Library | F QUI (Text) | 50503010967604 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bath Community Library | FIC (Text) | 38344100993243 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Beaufort Main | F QUI (Text) | 34208200707049 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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