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John Livesey, a recently retired Virginia obstetrician, spends a summer on the Oregon coast with his son's family, discovers the truth about his daughter-in-law's baby, and tries to resist the temptation to play God
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Retired Virginia obstetrician John Livesey, recently widowed and discouraged by the world's crumbling morals, meets a man who has just performed an unnecessary cesarean section on his wife so as to be the one to deliver their child. Though initially appalled by the act, Livesey finds himself recalling it later when he learns a friend is dying of cancer, when his affair with a younger woman ends in disillusionment, and when, during an extended visit to his son and his family in Oregon, he realizes his daughter-in-law's unborn baby does not belong to her husband. Coming to admire the calm directness with which the man took matters of life and death into his own hands, Livesey begins to reconsider what he values and what he will protect.
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Percival Everett is the author of ten novels, including Suder (also a Voices of the South title), Glyph, Frenzy, and God's Country; two story collections; and a children's book. Raised in Columbia, South Carolina, he is now professor of English at the University of Southern California.
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- PublisherTicknor & Fields
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0899194125
- ISBN 13 9780899194127
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages147
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition / First Printing. A solid near fine or better copy with a speck spot to top edge. Percival Everett has been a prolific writer of fiction since the early 1980's, yet not many are familiar with him. This is changing with the 2024 publication of James, a bestseller. Much of his recent work has been relegated to paperback originals, but his earlier titles were issued in hardcover in very limited quantities, like this title. All are scarce. Seller Inventory # 045553
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