To the new owners : a Martha's Vineyard memoir /

In the 1970s, Madeleine Blais' in-laws purchased a vacation house on Martha's Vineyard for the exorbitant sum of $80,000. 2.2 miles down a poorly marked, one lane dirt road, the house was better termed a shack. It had no electricity, no modern plumbing, the roof leaked and mice had invaded...

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Main Author: Blais, Madeleine (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 |a Blue gold -- The shack -- Turn right, turn left -- The new house -- Summer notes -- The Jaws effect -- Operating instructions -- The ideal guest -- Mr. Ulf, famous writer -- Phil -- What Kay Graham brought to the table -- Boiling the Pope -- "She is not so young now" -- Time to leave -- Great dark cattle -- At rest. 
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