The red address book
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Menzies, Alice, translator.
Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
Format
Book
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290 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English

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"Written with love, told with joy. Very easy to enjoy."--Fredrik Backman, author of A Man Called Ove For fans of The Little Paris Bookshop and The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared comes a heartwarming debut about 96-year-old Doris, who writes down the memories of her eventful life as she pages through her decades-old address book. But the most profound moment of her life is still to come . . . Meet Doris, a 96-year-old woman living alone in her Stockholm apartment. She has few visitors, but her weekly Skype calls with Jenny--her American grandniece, and her only relative--give her great joy and remind her of her own youth. When Doris was a girl, she was given an address book by her father, and ever since she has carefully documented everyone she met and loved throughout the years. Looking through the little book now, Doris sees the many crossed-out names of people long gone and is struck by the urge to put pen to paper. In writing down the stories of her colorful past--working as a maid in Sweden, modelling in Paris during the 30s, fleeing to Manhattan at the dawn of the Second World War--can shehelp Jenny, haunted by a difficult childhood, unlock the secrets of their family and finally look to the future? And whatever became of Allan, the love of Doris's life? A charming novel that prompts reflection on the stories we all should carry to the next generation, and the surprises in life that can await even the oldest among us, The Red Address Book introduces Sofia Lundberg as a wise--and irresistible--storyteller.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Lundberg, S., & Menzies, A. (2019). The red address book (First U.S. edition.). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Lundberg, Sofia, 1974- and Alice, Menzies. 2019. The Red Address Book. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Lundberg, Sofia, 1974- and Alice, Menzies. The Red Address Book Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Lundberg, Sofia, and Alice Menzies. The Red Address Book First U.S. edition., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.

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