| International Standard Book Number |
9780385551977
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
813/.54 TnLvILS
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| Personal Name |
Greer, Andrew Sean, author.
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| Title Statement |
Villa Coco : a novel / Andrew Sean Greer.
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| Edition Statement |
First Doubleday hardcover edition.
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| Imprint |
New York : Doubleday Books, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
288 pages ; 25 cm
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| Summary, Etc. |
"An aspiring archivist determined to begin a "serious" life after an undistinguished undergraduate career takes up residence in the Italian countryside. Here, he becomes the all-purpose assistant to the Baronessa, known to her friends as Coco, a defiantly youthful and naturally flamboyant woman of ninety-two. Amid a chaotic and colorful milieu of gin-swilling princesses, incomprehensible handymen, roaming boarhunters, nuns, and other local wildlife, our young man does his best to catalog the villa's extensive collection of art and antiquities--although he notices that things seem to go missing right under his nose. Despite himself, he tumbles into an affair with a married man, complicating his future plans considerably. And when the Baronessa loses someone close to her, he becomes an unwitting accomplice in the acceleration of Coco's great and final plan: to locate the love of her life and be reunited before it's too late."--Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Adultery Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
First loves Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Older women Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Archivists Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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