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Book Description
An intriguing journey inside one of America's most eccentric and brilliant families offers a portrait of the James family, which produced three famous children- ...
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nytimes published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010
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Distinctions and likenesses
The last time all five James children were in the same room was at their mother’s funeral, in 1882. It must have been a strange gathering. Even by then, their lives had followed such extraordinarily different paths that, to the reader of their collec ... (read full critics)
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Book Details
- English Books
- 693 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0805074902
- ISBN-13: 9780805074901
- Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
- Pub date: Jun 10, 2008
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The Dysfunctional Jameses
“House of Wits” seems an odd title, suggesting elegant repartee and playful badinage — more Oscar Wilde or Noël Coward — for what is billed as an “intimate portrait” of the James family. Certainly they could be witty (Alice, the only daughter, was es ... (read full critics)