She's Ilka Weissnix, a young Jewish refugee from Hitler's Europe, newly arrived in the United States. He's Carter Bayoux, her first American: a middle-aged, hard-drinking black intellectual. Lore Segal's brilliant novel is the story of their love affair--one of the funniest and saddest in modern fiction.
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She's Ilka Weissnix, a young Jewish refugee from Hitler's Europe, newly arrived in the United States. He's Carter Bayoux, her first American: a middle-aged, hard-drinking black intellectual. Lore Segal's brilliant novel is the story of their love affair--one of the funniest and saddest in modern fiction.
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Good. We flipped through this book and didn't notice any notes or underlines. The cover has visible markings and wear. Very slight shelf wear to the dust jacket The front text block edge is deckled Fast Shipping-Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 287 p. Audience: General/trade. May 1985 Knopf hardcover stated first edition implicit first printing flatsigned by the author on the title page with a line through her printed name. Tanning and light soil on dj, price clipped, tiny stain on ffep, sunning on cover, else text clean, binding tight.