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Book Title: Marriage Portrait: Reese's Book Club : a Novel
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Topic: Contemporary Women, Literary
Publication Year: 2022
Item Height: 1.2 in
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 22.6 Oz
Author: Maggie O'farrell
Item Length: 9.5 in
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
