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BAXTER, CHARLES Saul and Patsy - a Novel - By Charles Baxter
New York: Pantheon, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. 0375410295 Hardcover in DJ 1st Edition ... Brand new from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... Jacket protected in New, clear, non-stick mylar sleeve ... this reflective novel is about the fretful inner life of one of a married couple ... Saul Bernstein is a transplanted Jew, who has moved from Baltimore to his the "dusty, luckless" fictional city of Five Oaks, Mich... He observes 'with an ill-at-ease hyperawareness ' ... Young-marrieds Saul and Patsy move to Evanston, Illinois, when Saul is hired to teach at the local high school ... They rent a farmhouse, and make love in every room ... Patsy, a former modern dancer, finds work as a bank teller, gives birth to a daughter, and with infinite patience tolerates her "professional worrier" of a husband ... but the story turns on the inexplicable suicide of Saul's illiterate, inarticulate student, Gordy Himmelman ... Blamed by some for the boy's death, Saul must struggle against real community hostility instead of imagined anti-Semitism ... Resolutely, he refuses to give up on his adopted Midwestern hometown, bringing this novel to a quietly triumphant conclusion ... " Saul and Patsy " A Novel , by Charles Baxter ... published by Pantheon, New York ... First Edition, 2003 ... Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality ***. NEW/New .
Offered for US$ 19.95 by: Cavendish International Books & Music - Book number: 4898
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