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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 artfully crafted interlocking flashbacks set against a vividly drawn scrim 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. Invisible Mending is Frederick Busch's half-comic, half-serious mediation on Jewish identity and consciousness - an ambitious grapple with the New York/Jewish ethos.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Invisible Mending
• Subtitle: A Novel
• Author: Frederick Busch
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 286
• EAN: 9780870744174
• ISBN: 9780870744174
• ID: 06344377
• Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press,U.S.
• Weight: 363 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 146 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. March 2002

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