The grammarians
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Schine, Cathleen,
Published
New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
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258 pages ; 22 cm
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Main Library - Adult
Fiction Schine, C
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Published
New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English

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Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins, share an obsession with words. As adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation begins to push them apart. Their fraying twinship finally shreds completely when the sisters go to war over custody of their most prized family heirloom: Merriam Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition.
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A comic love letter to sibling rivalry and the English language by the author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport follows the experiences of identical twins whose respective literary careers are upended by their battle to claim an heirloom dictionary.

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Distribution of decedents' estates -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Grammarians -- Fiction.
Identical twins -- Fiction.
Novels.
Sisters -- Fiction.
Twins -- Fiction.
Women journalists -- Fiction.
Women poets -- Fiction.