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Author:

Schine, Cathleen, author.

Title:

The grammarians / Cathleen Schine.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Sarah Crichton Books/FarrarStraus and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

258 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Identical twins--Fiction.
Sisters--Fiction.
Grammarians--Fiction.
Women journalists--Fiction.
Women poets--Fiction.
Twins--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Distribution of decedents' estates--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.
A comic love letter to sibling rivalry and the English language by the author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport follows the experiences of identical twins whose respective literary careers are upended by their battle to claim an heirloom dictionary.

ISBN:

0374280118
9780374280116

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1080249435

LCCN:

2018060805

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