A Taxonomy of Barnacles A Novel
-75%
Availability: In Stock

A Taxonomy of Barnacles A Novel

SKU: 9781466860896

Original price was: $11.99.Current price is: $3.00.

Access A Taxonomy of Barnacles A Novel Now. Discount up to 90%

Categories: ,

Additional information

Full Title

A Taxonomy of Barnacles A Novel
Author(s)

Galt Niederhoffer
Edition
ISBN

9781466860896, 9780312426514, 9780312334833
Publisher

St. Martin\'s Press (Macmillan US Trade)
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

The Barnacle sisters–Bell, Bridget, Benita, Beryl, Belinda and Beth–have been raised in New York bytheir eccentric, self-made father in a fabulous, gigantic Fifth Avenue apartment that, encrusted with Barry Barnacle’s scientific collections, feels like a little piece of the Museum of Natural History transplanted to the other side of Central Park. Now that most of the sisters have come of age, Barry Barnacle proposes a contest, a test of wits and wills that should at long last settle what is to Barry the most essential of all questions: nature, or nurture? Whichever of his daughters can most spectacularly carry on his name will inherit his fortune; the others are out cold.

It’s a proposition to set a Jane Austen heroine on her ear, but in Galt Niederhoffer’s A Taxonomy of Barnacles, the Barnacle girls are up to the challenge. Throw the girls’ mother Bella and their childhood crushes–the Finch twins next door–into the mix and the stage is set for a completely inventive and utterly fresh social comedy that is as beautifully written as it is unique.

Related products