Zimmer's wife, Lil, says their love is dead. He says it's just tired. Divorcing, he feels as if his whole love life is passing before him - and then part of it really is, in the still-sexy person of old flame Rhona Glinsky. In artfully crafted interlocking flashbacks set against a vividly drawn scrim of New York City, Busch lets his hapless hero tell his story of the angst-driven complications of both licit and illicit love. It was Greenwich Village in the Sixties, and Zimmer was writing copy for a sleazy PR agency. Rhona ...
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Zimmer's wife, Lil, says their love is dead. He says it's just tired. Divorcing, he feels as if his whole love life is passing before him - and then part of it really is, in the still-sexy person of old flame Rhona Glinsky. In artfully crafted interlocking flashbacks set against a vividly drawn scrim of New York City, Busch lets his hapless hero tell his story of the angst-driven complications of both licit and illicit love. It was Greenwich Village in the Sixties, and Zimmer was writing copy for a sleazy PR agency. Rhona was a voluptuous Nazi-hunting librarian who taught him introductory love and guilt and drove him into the arms of the tall blonde shiksa Lillian. And now, twenty years later, the middle-aged Zimmer is proving that opposites still attract, by falling in love - again - with both of them. Invisible Mending is Frederick Busch's half-comic, half-serious mediation on Jewish identity and consciousness - an ambitious grapple with the New York/Jewish ethos.
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Publisher:
Boston, MA, U.S.A. : David R. Godine Publisher, Incorporated, 1984
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
8367706892
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ISBN: 0879234938, Hardback, stated 1st edition, Very Good Plus in a Very Good Plus DJ; book and DJ have a small amount of denting to rear leading edge, small sticker ghost stain to rear free endpaper, minor wear and rubbing to DJ and DJ edges, publisher's "foil award sticker" to front panel of DJ, 8vo., 277 pages.,
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Signed by Author(s) First printing. SIGNED by the author on the half title page. Near fine in a near fine dustjacket. Not priceclipped and no markings.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. 277p. Signed by Bush. octavo hardbound. tight binding. clean crisp boards. interior clean throughout. dj: lightly worn, creasing front flap.
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Very good. First Plume printing different cover than pictured Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Near fine in near fine dustwrapper. Author's name embossed on front cover, but gold gilt is not on every letter. Light shelf rubbing to dustwrapper Pages clean. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Very Good. Signed 1st edition, 1st printing, Godine Publishing hardcover w/ DJ, 1984. Book is Near Fine, w/ clean text, binding tight enough to suggest it may be unread. DJ is Near Fine, in protective mylar. Signed, inscribed and dated by author on title page. Free delivery confirmation.
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Very Good. First edition. Very good hardcover with similar dustwrapper. First edition. The book spine ends and cover edges have light rub. The book foredges have light soiling. The text is clean. The dustwrapper panel edges and spine ends have light chipping. The back dustwrapper panel has light soiling.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Uncorrected proof in proof dust jacket. Spine with a tiny cosmetic tear and a small tanned area at the foot else fine in a near fine dust jacket with modest creasing at the crown, a bit of rubbing on the cover, and a tiny tear at the foot. (The jacket is printed only on the spine and cover panels. ) With a TLS from Godine's Publicity Director to a "Mr. Simmons, " passing the proof along.
