The Rose Thieves

By Heidi Jon Schmidt

Book Overview

The Rose Thieves gives us the Vanderwald family: flamboyant, hot-tempered Lila, who feels trapped living in a small New England town; her sentimental, eternally optimistic husband, a failed... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151790132
• ISBN13: 9780151790135
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A bittersweet coming of age story

THE ROSE THIEVES is the first humorous book written since the 1940's that is actually fun and funny . Written by Heidi jon Schmidt, who can take her seat at the table with Benchly, Parker, Cerf, and Thurber, the ROSE THIEVES is a bittersweet tale about growing up in the 1960's amid a family beset by bankruptcy, divorce, and insanity. The level of desperation is so great it is almost farcial. Schmidt knows how to tell a good yarn and time a joke. The ROSE THIEVES is one of the last great American novels written by someone not influenced by the television age