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John Chancellor Makes Me Cry

by Anne Rivers Siddons · 1975

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Anne Rivers Siddons invites you into her home and her heart

In this collection of heartfelt and involving vignettes, Anne Rivers Siddons—the beloved bestselling author of Downtown, Hill Towns, andColony—offers a stirring and insightful look at our everyday world and how one woman has chosen to live in it. Moving from memories of her gentle grandfather to her uncanny ability to attract stray animals, Siddons' intimate stories of her family are graced with the same poetic lilt and vibrant detail that have so wonderfully served her novels. For all those who know and love her works of fiction, John Chancellor Makes Me Cry is a glorious and thoroughly entertaining treat.

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1970s1970sMore like thisLess of this
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adult
Length
medium · 288 pages

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