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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
Published: Apr 2003
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $15.00
Pages: 272
In the late 1950s, when Nora Silk moves into Hemlock Street, the entire neighborhood sucks in its breath. A divorcee who wears Toreador pants and lets her kids eat sweets before school, Nora is a walking scandal. But when the block's husbands, wives, and children get to know her, they begin to see other things in Nora--and this Long Island town won't ever be the same...
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