Responsible Men: A Novel - Hardcover

Schwarzschild, Edward

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ISBN 10: 156512409X ISBN 13: 9781565124097

Publisher: Algonquin Books, 2005

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Max Wolinsky comes from a family of mostly upstanding salesmen. On the eve of his son's bar mitzvah he returns home to Philadelphia where he plans to put the finishing touches on a not-so-honorable business transaction and then disappear quietly back to Florida. Nothing, however, goes as planned for this con man with a conscience.

Honest, funny, and moving, Responsible Men is a portrait of three generations of men struggling to be good sons and good fathers in a world of big dreams and bigger temptations.

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Max Wolinsky comes from a family of mostly upstanding salesmen. On the eve of his son’s bar mitzvah, he returns home to Philadelphia, where he plans to put the finishing touches on a not-so-honorable business transaction and then head back to Florida. Nothing, though, goes as planned. Coming home, it seems, means coming to terms with his family. It means facing the expectations of his father, the needs of his stroke-addled uncle, and the adolescent tribulations of his son.

If Max can be civil to his ex-wife, listen to his son, and pull off one last scam so his father and uncle can live a better life, everything might turn out all right. But Max doesn’t figure on meeting Estelle. And he certainly doesn’t count on his uncle, who, unbeknownst to anyone, has his own master plan for the family. Responsible Men lays bare a private world in prose that rings with honesty, intelligence, humor, wisdom, and, above all, humanity.

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Edward Schwarzschild is the author of Responsible Men, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, a Book Sense Notable Pick, and finalist for both the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Samuel Goldberg and Sons Foundation Prize for Jewish Fiction. He is an associate professor at the University at Albany, SUNY, and a fellow at the New York State Writers Institute.

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PublisherAlgonquin Books
Publication date2005
ISBN 10 156512409X
ISBN 13 9781565124097
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Number of pages344
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Edward Schwarzschild

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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First Edition, 1st printing of Schwarschild's first novel. Pristine, clean & tight copy, unread in NEW condition. "RESPONSIBLE MEN tells a story of intrigue, redemption and human decency. Though strewn with the wreckage of life, the book is suffused with the light of hope. In straightforward prose, Schwarzschild writes with compassion and insight, which makes this marvelous novel a moving, impressive debut."---Ha Jin. "A thrilling first novel---Schwarzschild works with the quiet authority of a master. This is one terrific debut."---Kirkus Reviews. Quite presentable. Seller Inventory # RUB901

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