This copy has been SIGNED by Charles Baxter on the title page. "Saul and Patsy" is part comedy and part horror story and, like "The Feast of Love," both realistic and dreamlike. Its subjects - love, parenting, social class, the fantasies of wealth, and the realities of loss - are as familiar as our lives.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Saul and Patsy

Publisher

Pantheon Books, New York, NY

Publication Date

2003

Language

English

ISBN 10

0375410295

ISBN 13

9780375410291

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition/First Printing

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

Signed

Signed by Author(s)

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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.

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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.

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