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Saint Maybe
by Tyler, Anne
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679403612
- ISBN 13
- 9780679403616
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st Printing Stated: 'A signed first edition of this book has been privately printed by The Franklin Library.' This book is a First Printing of the First Trade Edition per same year on Title Page & Copyright Page and no other later printings noted. Hard cover in fine condition with beige boards, black spine cloth, and gold gilt lettering on spine and front board. Interior text block clean & tight; no writings; no markings noted. Dust jacket in likewise fine condition; no price on jacket flaps. Overall book presents and new and unread. * From the jacket front flap, ""In her rich and absorbing new novel, Anne Tyler gives us the story of a young man haunted by guilt over his brother's fate - and of his struggle to atone for the wrong he feels he has done. . . . . .Anne Tyler makes us smile and ache at the same time as she weaves her inimitable spell, immersing us in the bewilderments of family life and the surprising complexities of personal salvation."" Anne Tyler was Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988 for her novel ""Breathing Lessons.""
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
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M001503
- Title
- Saint Maybe
- Author
- Tyler, Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Trade Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679403612
- ISBN 13
- 9780679403616
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- Fiction, Family Life - Fiction, Suicide victims - Fiction, Brothers - Fiction, Young Men - Fiction, Saint Maybe, Anne Tyler
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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Elk Creek Heritage Books
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Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
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