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London: Heinemann, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. Signed by author. First edition. Inscribed to the real-life version of one of the novel's characters and signed by author on front endpaper ('Amsterdam August 1989 / For Rhoda, All resemblances... art is not life, it's better'n life... Love Comes to Its Senses still awaiting its premiere. Love. Don'). Rhoda was Rhoda Levine, the opera director, choreographer, and faculty member at Juilliard, Yale School of Drama, etc. Minor wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1987 Hard Cover. When Jasper Whiting, eminent plastic surgeon, leaves his conventional home and family to go and live by himself in a run-down block of houses in Boston's North End, he does not imagine how his life and all he has lived for will be transformed by the people he encounters there: by the bizarrely beautiful and preternaturally wise, one-legged model Luigi Sasekawa; by the boy upstairs,…
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