{"product_id":"9780375709166","title":"Saul and Patsy","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eBaxter, Charles\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eVintage\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e4\/12\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the winner of the PEN\/Malamud Award for Excellence and “one of our most gifted writers” (\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eSaul and Patsy\u003c\/i\u003e is \"stunning, never predictable, glimmering fiction, full of mischief and insight\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFive Oaks, Michigan is not exactly where Saul and Patsy meant to end up. Both from   the East Coast, they met in college, fell in love, and settled down to married life   in the Midwest. Saul is Jewish and a compulsively inventive worrier; Patsy is gentile   and cheerfully pragmatic. On Saul’s initiative (and to his continual dismay) they   have moved to this small town–a place so devoid of irony as to be virtually “a museum   of earlier American feelings”–where he has taken a job teaching high school.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Soon   this brainy and guiltily happy couple will find children have become a part of their   lives, first their own baby daughter and then an unloved, unlovable boy named Gordy   Himmelman. It is Gordy who will throw Saul and Patsy’s lives into disarray with an   inscrutable act of violence. As timely as a news flash yet informed by an immemorial   understanding of human character, \u003ci\u003eSaul and Patsy\u003c\/i\u003e is a genuine miracle.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42957675266303,"sku":"9780375709166","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780375709166_s600x595.jpg?v=1775592960","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9780375709166","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}