Saul and Patsy: a Novel

Baxter, Charles

ISBN 10: 0375410295 / ISBN 13: 9780375410291

Published by Pantheon, New York, 2003

About this Item

First printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (signature only) on the title page. Author's fourth novel. A clean unmarked copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Saul and Patsy: a Novel
• Publisher: Pantheon, New York
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375410295
• ISBN 13: 9780375410291
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: near fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

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.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

About the Author

Charles Baxter lives in Minneapolis and teaches at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of seven other works of fiction, including Believers, Harmony of the World, and Through the Safety Net. The Feast of Love was a finalist for the National Book Award.


From the Trade Paperback edition.