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The fall of a sparrow : a novel
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The fall of a sparrow : a novel

Author: Robert Hellenga
Publisher: New York : Scribner, ©1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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An American family disintegrates after a daughter is killed in an Italian terrorist bomb in 1980s Bologna. The mother enters a convent, the father has an affair with the daughter of his mistress, the remaining children leave. The climax comes when the father meets the woman who placed the bomb and discovers what prompts people to become killers.
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Genre/Form: Psychological fiction
Love stories
Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Hellenga, Robert, 1941-
Fall of a sparrow.
New York : Scribner, c1998
(OCoLC)607061004
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Hellenga
ISBN: 0684850265 9780684850269 9780684850276 0684850273
OCLC Number: 38216712
Description: 460 p. ; 25 cm.
Responsibility: Robert Hellenga.

Abstract:

An American family disintegrates after a daughter is killed in an Italian terrorist bomb in 1980s Bologna. The mother enters a convent, the father has an affair with the daughter of his mistress, the remaining children leave. The climax comes when the father meets the woman who placed the bomb and discovers what prompts people to become killers.

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