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Jul.08.2010 - 1:15 pm
Good Things I Wish You is out in paperback! My giveaway promotion for book clubs have ended, but there's at least one other on the Readers Group Choices website.
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Jan.26.2010 - 7:26 pm
Book Club Member? Shoot me an email to receive a free signed hardback of Good Things I Wish You. Note the postcard tucked inside. If you like the book, and your club decides to...
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Jan.25.2010 - 9:47 pm
The inclusion of images in Good Things evolved out of a happy accident. I commute long hours by train to my academic job--as does my narrator, Jeanette--so I started...
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Jul.26.2009
Published by The Providence Journal
Photos, scraps from letters and diaries, make this book a fascination.
About A. Manette
A. Manette Ansay has published six novels, including Good Things I Wish You (2009), forthcoming in paperback this summer (2010.) She is the author of Vinegar Hill, an Oprah Book Club Selection, and Midnight Champagne, a finalist for the National Book Critics...
A. Manette’s Favorite Books
Recent books that have stayed with me are Bel Canto and Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett, Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey and, most recently, The Land of...
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