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Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler (1992, Mass Market)

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"A novel that attests once again to Ms. Tylers enormous gifts as a writer.". Depressed and depleted, Ian is almost crushed under the weight of an unbearable, secret guilt. Then one crisp January evening, he catches sight of a window with glowing yellow neon, the CHURCH OF THE SECOND CHANCE.

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Saint Maybe is the rich and absorbing story of a young man's guilt over his brother's death and his struggle to atone for the wrong he feels he has done. On a quiet street in Baltimore in 1965, seventeen-year-old Ian Bedloe lives with his family in an "ideal, apple-pie household," enjoying the comfort of family traditions and indulging in all the usual dreams of the future. Until one night, whenIan's stinging words to his brother bring tragedy -- and from that careless moment on nothing can ever be the same. Anne Tyler takes us along Ian's painful and poignant quest for forgiveness, from theChurch of the Second Chance to Ian's gratifying, solitary work as a carpenter. Raising the three children that are thrust on him, he finds himself amazed, drowning in family and duty. Then, out of the very heart of thedomestic clutter, a light begins to flash. "From the Hardcover edition."

Product Identifiers

PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100804108749

ISBN-139780804108744

eBay Product ID (ePID)127375336

Product Key Features

Publication Year1992

TopicPsychological, Family Life, General, Literary

Book TitleSaint Maybe

LanguageEnglish

GenreFiction

AuthorAnne Tyler

FormatMass Market

Dimensions

Item Height1in.

Item Length6.9in.

Item Weight6.7 Oz

Item Width4.3in.

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition20

Reviews"Anne Tyler, who is blessedly prolific and graced with an effortless-seeming talent at describing whole rafts of intricately individualized people, might be described as a domestic novelist, one of that great line descending from Jane Austen...Her eye is kindly, wise and versatile (an eye that you would want on your jury if you ever had to stand trial), and after going at each new set of characters with authorial eagerness and an exuberant tumble of details, she tends to arrive at a set of conclusions about them that is a sort of golden mean." -- Edward Hoagland, The New York Times "With her extraordinary talents Anne Tyler can crush the heart with the hopelessness of life on one page and lift it with love and humor on the next. Now, in her eleventh novel, Breathing Lessons, she explores in one Baltimore marriage the resilient spirit that rescues us from moments of despair." -- Lee Lescaze, The Wall Street Journal From the Hardcover edition.

Dewey Decimal813.5/4

Number of Pages384 Pages