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Hi this is Betsy from Otto’s.  Do you remember the old rhyme “For want of a nail, the shoe was lost.  For want of the shoe, the horse was lost….etc.  Well a British storyteller has used that sequence of causality to build a story about a victim of a mugging.  A widowed grandmother suffers a broken hip during a mugging.  So she has to live with her daughter (and her “good-enough” husband) and because she, the grandmother, teaches reading to a mature and sensitive immigrant, her daughter’s married life teeters on the brink and because her career is assisting a retired professor whose reputation is diminishing along with his mental faculties…oh, you get the idea!  It’s fun.  And along the way you get to meet some very interesting people and read some very provocative prose on the value of books, the frustrations of aging, the elements of love.  And what happened to the mugger?  You don’t find out until the very last page.  Read How It All Began by Penelope Lively.  You’ll find it at Otto’s, a booklover’s paradise in the heart of Downtown Williamsport. 

How It All Began (Hardcover)

By Penelope Lively

$26.95

ISBN-13: 9780670023448
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Viking Adult, 1/2012

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