Hard Laughter AUTH-10858087 John Courtney Murray

John Courtney Murray

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Hard Laughter AUTH-10858087 John Courtney MurrayAnne Lamott's poignant first novel Hard Laughter, reissued in an attractive new edition. Writer (and sometime housecleaner) Jennifer is twenty three when her beloved father, Wallace, is diagnosed with a brain tumor. This catastrophic discovery sets off Anne Lamott's unexpectedly sweet and funny first novel, which is made dramatic not so much by Wallace's illness as by the emotional wake it sweeps under Jen and her brothers, self contained Ben and