Invisible mending / a novel by Frederick Busch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Busch, Frederick, 1941-2006.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

Jews--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.

Jews.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Fiction.

American fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

277 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : D.R. Godine, 1984.

Summary:

Zimmer's wife, Lil, says their love is dead. He says it's just tired. Divorcing, he feels as if his whole love life is passing before him - and then part of it really is, in the still-sexy person of old flame Rhona Glinsky. In interlocking flashbacks set against the backdrop of New York City, Busch lets his hapless hero tell his story of the angst-driven complications of both licit and illicit love. It was Greenwich Village in the Sixties, and Zimmer was writing copy for a sleazy PR agency. Rhona was a voluptuous Nazi-hunting librarian who taught him introductory love and guilt and drove him into the arms of the tall blonde shiksa Lillian. And now, twenty years later, the middle-aged Zimmer is proving that opposites still attract, by falling in love - again - with both of them.

Notes:

National Jewish Book Awards - Fiction, Winner, 1985

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0879234938

9780879234935

OCLC:

10020312