Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket with a Barnes & Noble "Autographed Copy" sticker on front panel. Laid in is an event invite for a book signing at Barnes & Noble. Signed by the author on the title page.

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David Leavitt’s deliciously sharp novel is a multilayered dissection of literary and sexual mores in the get-ahead eighties, when outrageous success lay seductively within reach of any young writer ambitious enough to grab it. Martin Bauman — nineteen, talented, and insecure — is enrolled at a prestigious college and wins a place under the tutelage of the legendary Stanley Flint, a man who makes or breaks careers with the flick of a weary hand. An irresistibly entertaining epic, erotic, honest, and funny, Martin Bauman “draws one character so masterfully that this character will stick in the reader’s mind as strongly as Magwitch or Harry Lime” (Philadelphia Inquirer).

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Bookseller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 567402
Title: Martin Bauman; or, A Sure Thing
Author: LEAVITT, David
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0395902436
ISBN 13: 9780395902431
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 2000
Keywords: AmerLit20thCent

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