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The Convalescent

By Anthony, Jessica
The Convalescent
Anthony, the inaugural winner of the Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, makes an unforgettable debut with an unforgettable hero: Seymour Akos Pfliegman--unlikely bandit, unloved lover, and historian of the unimportant.

Details

Authors: Anthony, Jessica
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paperback
GTIN13: 9780802144959
ISBN10: 0802144950
Page Count: 256
Dimensions: 5.4x0.8x8.2
Publisher: Grove Press

Strand Notes

The story of a small, bearded man selling meat out of a bus parked next to a stream in suburban Virginia...and also, somehow, the story of 10,000 years of Hungarian history. Jessica Anthony, the inaugural winner fo the Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, makes an unforgettable debut with an unforgettable hero: Rovas Akos Pfliegman - unlikely bandit, unloved lover, and historian of the unimportant. 243p.

Description

The Convalescent is the story of a small, bearded man selling meat out of a bus parked next to a stream in suburban Virginia . . . and also, somehow, the story of ten thousand years of Hungarian history. Jessica Anthony, the inaugural winner of the Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, makes an unforgettable debut with an unforgettable hero: Rovar kos Pfliegman--unlikely bandit, unloved lover, and historian of the unimportant.
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