He was a Jewish kid from the streets of the Bronx, making a big success in America, an engineer with a Wharton M.B.A., one of the elite few flown out to Seattle to work on America's newest missile. But why was he feeling lost and getting drunk every night? She was a poor German-Catholic farm girl from Idaho, just kicked out of convent for reading Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre. She arrived in town on a freight train with her ideals of peace and love, her Thomas Aquinas, her tawny port wine, and her trombone. They ...
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He was a Jewish kid from the streets of the Bronx, making a big success in America, an engineer with a Wharton M.B.A., one of the elite few flown out to Seattle to work on America's newest missile. But why was he feeling lost and getting drunk every night? She was a poor German-Catholic farm girl from Idaho, just kicked out of convent for reading Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre. She arrived in town on a freight train with her ideals of peace and love, her Thomas Aquinas, her tawny port wine, and her trombone. They met on the jazz scene, the most unlikely couple imaginable. But I was 1961. John F. Kennedy was in The White House. Martin Luther Kind had taken to the streets. Anything seemed possible...
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Seller's Description:
Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 245 p. Audience: General/trade. A very good copy in pictorial wraps with light wear to covers and cover edges; 1st printing, Remainder line to tope page block edge. 8vo., 245 pages.,
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Very good, no dust jacket as issued. SIGNED and inscribed 'To Anne-great meeting you' by author on half-title page. 1st trade paperback edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Book has mild edgewear. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 245 p. Audience: General/trade. By the late author of 'The Carmen Miranda Memorial Flagpole' and' 'Dr Ebenezer's Book and Liquor Store'. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
