Charles Baxter

Saul and Patsy

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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, unlova… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-375-70916-6
EAN: 9780375709166
Produktnummer: 1311038
Verlag: Vintage
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 317 S.
Masse: H20.5 cm x B13.3 cm x D1.8 cm 231 g
Gewicht: 231

Über den Autor

Charles Baxter is the author of the novels The Feast of Love (nominated for the National Book Award), The Soul Thief, Saul and Patsy, Shadow Play, and First Light, and the story collections Gryphon, Believers, A Relative Stranger, Through the Safety Net, and Harmony of the World. The stories Bravery and Charity, which appear in There's Something I Want You to Do, were included in Best American Short Stories. Baxter lives in Minneapolis and teaches at the University of Minnesota and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.