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Saul and Patsy

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From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence and "one of our most gifted writers" , Saul and Patsy is stunning, never predictable, glimmering fiction, full of mischief and insight .

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 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.

Language: English

Pages: 317

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage

Release: January 01, 2005

ISBN: 0375709169

ISBN 13: 9780375709166

Saul and Patsy

3.2/5 ( ratings)

From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence and "one of our most gifted writers" , Saul and Patsy is stunning, never predictable, glimmering fiction, full of mischief and insight .

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 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.

Language: English

Pages: 317

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage

Release: January 01, 2005

ISBN: 0375709169

ISBN 13: 9780375709166

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