{"product_id":"saul-and-patsy-vintage-contemporaries","title":"Saul and Patsy (Vintage Contemporaries)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the winner of the PEN\/Malamud Award for Excellence and “one of our most gifted writers” (\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eSaul and Patsy\u003c\/i\u003e is \"stunning, never predictable, glimmering fiction, full of mischief and insight\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFive Oaks, Michigan is not exactly where Saul and Patsy meant to end up. Both from the East Coast, they met in college, fell in love, and settled down to married life in the Midwest. Saul is Jewish and a compulsively inventive worrier; Patsy is gentile and cheerfully pragmatic. On Saul’s initiative (and to his continual dismay) they have moved to this small town–a place so devoid of irony as to be virtually “a museum of earlier American feelings”–where he has taken a job teaching high school.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Soon this brainy and guiltily happy couple will find children have become a part of their lives, first their own baby daughter and then an unloved, unlovable boy named Gordy Himmelman. It is Gordy who will throw Saul and Patsy’s lives into disarray with an inscrutable act of violence. As timely as a news flash yet informed by an immemorial understanding of human character, \u003ci\u003eSaul and Patsy\u003c\/i\u003e is a genuine miracle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780375709166\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Baxter, Charles","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £3.61","offer_id":47970570010801,"sku":"SB-0375709169-C3","price":3.61,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/saul-and-patsy-vintage-contemporaries","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}