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Novel

Puttering About in a Small Land

1985

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About this book

Two Southern California couples become entangled after meeting through their children’s school. Business ambitions, marital tensions, and an affair expose the dissatisfaction beneath their ordinary lives in this intimate portrait of postwar America.

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Work history

  1. no later than May 15, 1957

    Composition: no later than May 15, 1957

    Latest supported composition boundary based on agency receipt evidence.

    Medium confidence
  2. May 15, 1957

    Received by Scott Meredith Literary Agency

    May 15, 1957

  3. Oct 1985

    First published Oct 1985

    Puttering About In A Small Land · Academy Chicago