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Before You Know Kindness

Published
Aug 2005
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General Fiction General Fiction
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448

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant, here is a novel that examines wildly divisive American issues like gun control and animal rights with Chris Bohjalian's trademark emotional heft and spellbinding storytelling skill.

For ten summers, the Seton family—all three generations—met at their country home in New England to spend a week together playing tennis, badminton, and golf, and savoring gin and tonics on the wraparound porch to celebrate the end of the season. In the eleventh summer, everything changed. A hunting rifle with a single cartridge left in the chamber wound up in exactly the wrong hands at exactly the wrong time, and led to a nightmarish accident that put to the test the values that unite the family—and the convictions that just may pull it apart. 

Look for Chris Bohjalian's new novel, The Lioness!

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First Edition Aug 2005 Vintage ISBN 1400031656
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Oct 2005 Vintage ISBN B000FCKF9E
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Oct 2005 Knopf ISBN 0307276945
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Oct 2004 Books on Tape ISBN B0006IU3L2
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Oct 2004 Random House Audio ISBN B002VA8I56
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Oct 2004 Random House Audio ISBN 0739314157
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Oct 2004 Random House Audio ISBN B0006IU6R8
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Oct 2004 Shaye Areheart Books ISBN 1400047455
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Oct 2004 Random House Audio ISBN 0739314149
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Oct 2004 Random House Large Print ISBN 0375434186
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