Charms for Easy Life
Kaye Gibbons. Avon Books, $7.99 (304pp) ISBN 978-0-380-72270-9
Three women find solace in an eccentric household in Raleigh, N.C., in Gibbons's touching fourth novel. (Apr.)
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Reviewed on: 04/04/1994
Genre: Fiction
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