Win: The Impostor’s Daughter by Laurie Sandell

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Welcome to Saturday, day six, of the week long 1000th post giveaway series.

I have been given the amazing opportunity by Hachette Book Group to give out 5 copies of The Impostor’s Daughter by Laurie Sandell.

In this delightfully composed graphic novel, journalist Sandell (Glamour) illustrates a touchingly youthful story about a daughter’s gushing love for her father. Using a winning mixture of straightforward comic-book illustrations with a first-person diarylike commentary, Sandell recounts the gradual realization from her young adulthood onward that her charming, larger-than-life Argentine father, bragging of war metals, degrees from prestigious universities and acquaintances with famous people, had lied egregiously to his family about his past and accomplishments. Growing up with her two younger sisters and parents first in California, then in Bronxville, N.Y., the author records signs along the way that her father, a professor of economics with a volatile temperament and autocratic manner, was hiding something, from his inexplicable trips out of town, increasing paranoid isolation, early name change from Schmidt to Sandell, to massive credit-card fraud. Interviewing her father for her first magazine article, the author resolved to check his sources and even flew later to confront his past in Argentina, only to discover the truth. Feeling betrayed, guilty for exposing him and mistrustful in her relationships with men, Sandell numbed herself by abusing Ambien and alcohol. Her depiction of her rehab adventure is rather pat and tidy, and she does not address the notion that her own creativity might have sprung from her father’s very duplicity. However, Sandell’s method of storytelling is marvelously unique and will surely spark imitators.

So now… GIVEAWAY!

Would you like the chance to win a copy of The Impostor’s Daughter by Laurie Sandell? This is your lucky night. There are a number of ways you can win this book, each good for one entry each. For each entry, leave me a separate comment. Also, make sure that you leave me a way to contact you if you win.

1.) Leave a comment below telling me that you’d like to win.
2.) Blog about this contest and leave a comment with the links.
3.) Add me on twitter (@morbidromantic) and Tweet this contest then comment with a link to the Tweet or your username.
4.) Stumble this giveaway or my main site and comment with your StumbleUpon username.
5.) Rate my blog at Blogged. Click here or find the graphic on the sidebar under ‘ranks.’
6.) Add my RSS reader here and leave me a comment telling me that you subscribe to my feed.
7.) Comment on any of my previous book reviews and leave me a comment telling me that you have.
8.) Go to any of my book reviews and rate it using the ‘Rate this post’ option in the post header information. Leave me a comment telling me you have.
9.) Add me on LibraryThing, Good Reads, Shelfari, Book Blogs, or BookBlips and leave a comment telling me where you’ve added me and (if you can), your username/name.
10.) Answer this question: if you could lose your identity and become anything/anyone for a day, what would you choose?

If you do all of the above, you will get ten entries. That’s ten chances to win.

Winners will be selected on 11:59pm EST on August 8th. I will be using Random.org to select the winner. When you win, I will send you an email asking for your physically mailing address, which you have 3 days to respond to before new winners are selected. No PO Boxes. This contest is open to the US and Canada only.

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  1. 1
    . Tawnda on 26 Jul 2009 at 4:25 pm #

    this book sounds so good!

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    . Tawnda on 26 Jul 2009 at 4:26 pm #

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    . jennifer cecil on 27 Jul 2009 at 8:29 am #

    Enter me please.
    jwx4 at yahoo dot com

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    . Richard Deyarmond on 30 Jul 2009 at 2:43 am #

    Sounds like an interesting read

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    . Amber G on 30 Jul 2009 at 10:33 am #

    I would very much like to win ;-)

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    . Ann F on 30 Jul 2009 at 2:05 pm #

    I would love to win this book. Please enter me in the giveaway.

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    . Karen B on 30 Jul 2009 at 2:52 pm #

    I’d like to win! :razz:

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    . susan varney on 30 Jul 2009 at 4:03 pm #

    i love to read everyday mverno@roadrunner.com

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    . Linda Peters on 30 Jul 2009 at 4:16 pm #

    would love to win and read this, thanks

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    . patrick m on 30 Jul 2009 at 6:47 pm #

    i need to read..thanks

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    . angie on 30 Jul 2009 at 11:53 pm #

    This looks like an interesting book. I would like to win.

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    . Carla on 31 Jul 2009 at 11:22 am #

    i would love to win this!

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    . Angela J on 31 Jul 2009 at 12:56 pm #

    I’d like to win

  15. 15
    . Deborah Wellenstein on 31 Jul 2009 at 4:50 pm #

    I would like to win!

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    . Wonn on 31 Jul 2009 at 7:24 pm #

    My daughter really like it.

  17. 17
    . J.E. on 31 Jul 2009 at 9:11 pm #

    need a book for vaca,,thx for contest..

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    . Leslie Sil on 31 Jul 2009 at 10:00 pm #

    Nice Hope I win

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    . Djp on 31 Jul 2009 at 11:37 pm #

    this is what i need….a new read

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    . Sharon A on 1 Aug 2009 at 8:57 am #

    I would like to win this.

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    . Lori Walker on 1 Aug 2009 at 11:59 am #

    I’d like to win!

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    . James Coyne on 1 Aug 2009 at 4:26 pm #

    I’d like to win

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    . Linda S on 2 Aug 2009 at 12:53 am #

    Sounds like an interesting book. I would like to win.

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    . Linda Chaput on 2 Aug 2009 at 9:06 am #

    This would be a great book to read at the beach.

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    . Susan C (18 comments.) on 2 Aug 2009 at 11:12 am #

    I would like to win!
    smchester at gmail dot com

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