Saint Maybe
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: Franklin Library, 1991. Limited First Edition. Full Leather. Fine / No Jacket as Issued. Item #5311
A handsome dark green leather Limited Edition SIGNED by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Anne Tyler. With marbled endpapers, gold gilt cover designs and page edges, and bound-in silk bookmark. In fine unread condition. By the author of "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant," "The Accidental Tourist," and "Breathing Lessons" for which the author won the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. A lovely edition.
Tyler explores shifting gender roles in this novel through her main character, seventeen-year-old Ian Bedloe, who assumes responsibility for raising his nieces and nephews after being responsible for his brother’s death. Set in 1965, the story examines the accommodations and the challenges of maternal sacrifice, as well as the evolving notions of masculinity in the role of caretaker.
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