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A Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and columnist for the "Washington Post" presents a first novel, limning a vision of small-town America in the Midwest in the late thirties
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'gentle, wry story about childhood and memory before the Depression, World War II and the Civil Rights movement changed and challenged social norms.'
(Daily Mail)'This candid, unnerving and unexpectedly dark novel take hold of the imagination and the memory, firmly pushing aside many flashier works as it settle down to stay put.'
(Irish Times)About the Author
WILLIAM McPHERSON (b. 1933) is a distinguished literary critic, editor, journalist, and novelist. Born and raised in Michigan, he attended the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and George Washington University. Starting at The Washington Post as a copy editor in 1958, he worked his way up to become first a staff writer and editor, then, following several years as a senior editor at William Morrow & Co., returned to become its daily book editor, founder of its Book World publication, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic. His first novel, Testing the Current, was originally published in 1984. A second, To the Sargasso Sea, appeared in 1987 and reintroduced readers to Tommy MacAllister as a forty-year-old writer.
D. T. MAX is a staff writer at The New Yorker and is at work on a biography of David Foster Wallace. His book The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery was published by Random House in 2007.
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Condition: Very Good. 1985. First Edition. hardcover. From the library of Michael Viney, with bookplate pasted inside front cover. Fine in dust wrapper. DW showing light age and shelf wear. Internally lightly toned, spotting on edges, text is crisp and clear and remains a very good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # KSG0040813
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Condition: Very Good. 1985. First Edition. hardcover. From the library of Michael Viney, with bookplate pasted inside front cover. Fine in dust wrapper. DW showing light age and shelf wear. Internally lightly toned, spotting on edges, text is crisp and clear and remains a very good copy. . . . . Seller Inventory # KSG0040813
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