Five Oaks, Michigan is not exactly where Saul and Patsy meant to
end up. Both from the East Coast, they met in college, fell in
love, and settled down to married life in the Midwest. Saul is
Jewish and a compulsively inventive worrier; Patsy is gentile and
cheerfully pragmatic. On Saul's initiative (and to his continual
dismay) they have moved to this small town-a place so devoid of
irony as to be virtually "a museum of earlier American
feelings"-where he has taken a job teaching high school.
Soon this brainy and guiltily happy couple will find children have
become a part of their lives, first their own baby daughter and
then an unloved, unlovable boy named Gordy Himmelman. It is Gordy
who will throw Saul and Patsy's lives into disarray with an
inscrutable act of violence. As timely as a news flash yet informed
by an immemorial understanding of human character, Saul and Patsy
is a genuine miracle.
General
| Imprint: |
Random House
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Vintage Contemporaries |
| Release date: |
April 2005 |
| First published: |
2005 |
| Authors: |
Charles Baxter
|
| Dimensions: |
202 x 132 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
336 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-375-70916-6 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
0-375-70916-9 |
| Barcode: |
9780375709166 |
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