The Peppered Moth
- ISBN-10
- 0156007193
- ISBN-13
- 9780156007191
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 369
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Margaret Drabble
Description
As Faro Gaulden listens to a lecture on genetic inheritance, she wonders why some people live in one place generation after generation whereas others feel the need for continuous movement, and finds that the past has a way of reasserting itself . Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
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