ISBN: 9780241104675 - rounds (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 243 pp. ; 22 cm. ; 1st edition ; ISBN: 024110467X, 9780241104675 ; cover a little dusty ; small mark from a price sticker on end paper ; remainder mark on bottom text block ; "an agonizingly childless academic couple (previously introduced in Manual Labor, 1974) come to upstate New York and yet another college, fixing up yet one more old house as compensation for their biological incompleteness. Meanwhile, Eli Silver, the local pediatrician, has lost a son in an auto accident and a wife (temporarily) in the backwash of grief. And Elizabeth Bean, a college counselor, is unwillingly pregnant. So from Bean through Silver to Sorenson, there's an intricate, emotionally-fraught triple play: an adoption is arranged. Tendrils of responsibility w ind around all this: Phil's relationship with his illiterate black students; Dr. Silver's guilt over his dead son; Elizabeth's single-occasion lover, the father of her child, a wacko English professor."--Kirkus Reviews ; VG/FINE. Book.…