A beautiful, elegiac novel of a father, a son, and the secrets that divide generations, "Sacrifice" builds with quiet elegance to its shocking conclusion.
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A beautiful, elegiac novel of a father, a son, and the secrets that divide generations, "Sacrifice" builds with quiet elegance to its shocking conclusion.
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Fair. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear. It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear. It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Good. Good Ships From Canada Sewn binding Paper over boards 256 p Audience: General/trade Book Description: A beautiful, elegiac novel of a father, a son, and the secrets that divide generations In the seventy-fifth year of his life, on a sweltering August afternoon, Chester Garland, the distinguished psychiatrist, author, and campaigner for human rights, is struck by a subway train and dies Soon after, his son Paul receives a thoroughly unexpected inheritance: three diaries written decades earlier, in the year when Garland, on a trip to France, unaccountably walked out on his family and his profession As cool, detached Paul, a cyberspace cartoonist, reads the diaries, he finally faces the event that has shadowed his life since childhood He embarks, as his father had a quarter century earlier, on a pilgrimage of love and grief, of passions-religious, erotic, and intellectual-and of discovery that is as unexpected as it is moving With grace and precision, Gitlin takes us on a journey no.
