02358cam a2200373 i 4500 610988696 TxAuBib 20170613120000.0 161117s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016043794 9781101870365 hardcover; acid-free paper 1101870362 hardcover; acid-free paper (OCoLC)959536257 DLC eng rda DLC YDX BTCTA BDX OCLCO OCLCF OCLCQ VTL OI6 DAD VP@ IUK TXDRI ZHB NBO TxAuBib rda Glass, Julia, 1956-, author. A house among the trees [Book] / Julia Glass. House among the trees : a novel. First edition. New York : Pantheon Books, [2017] ©2017. 352 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "When the revered children's book author Mort Lear dies accidentally at his Connecticut home, he leaves his property and all its contents to his trusted assistant, Tomasina Daulair, who is moved by his generosity but dismayed by the complicated and defiant directives in his will. Tommy knew Morty for more than four decades, since meeting him in a Manhattan playground when she was twelve and he was working on sketches for the book that would make him a star. By the end of his increasingly reclusive life, she found herself living in his house as confidante and helpmeet, witness not just to his daily routines but to the emotional fallout of his strange boyhood and his volatile relationship with a lover who died of AIDS. Now Tommy must try to honor Morty's last wishes while grappling with their effects on several people, including Dani Daulair, her estranged brother; Meredith Galarza, the lonely, outraged museum curator to whom Lear once promised his artistic estate; and Nicholas Greene, the beguiling British actor cast to play Mort Lear in a movie."-- Provided by Publisher. Inheritance and succession Fiction. Inheritance and succession. Self-realization Fiction. Self-realization. Artists Fiction. Artists. Fiction. lcgft Domestic fiction. lcgft