This delightfully subtle second novel about Omar Kohn of Charleston, South Carolina, recalls his fifteenth summer, marked by playing baseball, writing for a newspaper, reading about the Civil War, daydreaming, and going on his first date. Underneath such ordinary events, enormous personal changes happen to Omar. He learns about his parents' frailties and their very different family backgrounds as he sorts through questions about his own identity and destiny. Under Louis Rubin's touch, Charleston in the late 1930s exerts its ...
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This delightfully subtle second novel about Omar Kohn of Charleston, South Carolina, recalls his fifteenth summer, marked by playing baseball, writing for a newspaper, reading about the Civil War, daydreaming, and going on his first date. Underneath such ordinary events, enormous personal changes happen to Omar. He learns about his parents' frailties and their very different family backgrounds as he sorts through questions about his own identity and destiny. Under Louis Rubin's touch, Charleston in the late 1930s exerts its own effect on Omar's maturation. It proves a baffling, traumatic, enriching time in a boy's life, and the reader shares it acutely (Booklist).
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0807108979. 8vo 8"-9" tall; 209 pages; HC/DJ 1st printing. Bright, snug and very neat in a sharp clean dust jacket. No marks. Uncommon in such well preserved condition. F/F-
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. Light foxing on topedge and foredge, near fine in a very good dust jacket with tiny nicks and creases, a slightly sunned spine, and light interior foxing.
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