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Rent Blackbird House (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: Jun 2005
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $17.00
Pages: 238
Synopsis
These 12 stories all take place in the old farmhouse known as Blackbird House, on Cape Cod. From colonial days to modern times, the house is home to a series of inhabitants whose lives are delineated here. In the experience of each--and they include a Holocaust survivor, a one-legged man, and a small boy--the house plays a major role.
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