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Saint Maybe
by TYLER, Anne
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0679403612
- ISBN 13
- 9780679403616
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. 0679403612 . Stated first trade edition. An excellent copy of Anne Tyler's touching novel in which her teen-aged character finds himself raising three children. --- In pink paper-covered boards backed in navy cloth, with cover and spine titling stamped in gilt. Jacket features cover painting by John Collier and a Diane Walker photographic portrait of the author on rear flap. --- A very nice copy: clean, bright, and unmarked save for a remainder mark to lower textblock edge. Bright unclipped jacket lacks damages.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall) ; (8), 337 pages .
Synopsis
Saint Maybe is a 1991 novel by American author Anne Tyler. Tyler's plot explores the ways ordinary people react to disastrous events with quietly heroic behavior. When seventeen-year-old Ian Bedloe confronts his older brother Danny with his belief that the latter's wife, Lucy, is having an affair, Danny commits suicide.
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 81942
- Title
- Saint Maybe
- Author
- TYLER, Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Trade Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679403612
- ISBN 13
- 9780679403616
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- 0679403612
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