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SAINT MAYBE
by Tyler, Anne
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679403612
- ISBN 13
- 9780679403616
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. First Trade Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Fine. SIGNED by the Author on a front endpaper, tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over flesh-colored boards, archival mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a warmly-lit home by John Collier illustrator, 337 pages. Krochs & Brentanos' "1st Edition Circle" bookmark included. Anne Tyler (born 1941) is an Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-three novels. Tyler's awards include: Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction (1980), National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1985), Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1989), and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Lifetime achievement (2020). <br /> <br /> Saint Maybe is Tyler's novel of a young man in the 1960s, haunted by guilt over his brother's suicide. From the night when he interfered with his older brother's life the Bedloe brothers were never the same again.<br /> <br /> SUPERIOR CONDITION internally: clean, tight, and bright. No previous owner or remainder marks.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8642
- Title
- SAINT MAYBE
- Author
- Tyler, Anne
- Format/Binding
- Cloth and boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Trade Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679403612
- ISBN 13
- 9780679403616
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- child, family, love, brothers, guilt, penance, religion, death, suicide, infidelity, father
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Borg Antiquarian
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Lake Forest, Illinois
About Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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