Face Value by Don Bloch - 1989-07-01

Chicago, Illinois, USA: Ivan R. Dee Publisher, 1989. CE5 - A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear plus there are the usual library stamps on the top and bottom outside paper edges, title page, and back endpaper plus the dust jacket endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve plus there is the usual library label on the spine plus the endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. The main character is a successful plastic surgeon who leaves his family to live alone in a run-down block of houses in Boston's North End. His life is transformed by his relations with the people he meets in this unpromising setting and is forced to declare himself in his actions. By the author of "Arising," "Little Friends," "Double Take," "The Modern Common Wind," and "Passing Through." 346p.. First American… Read More

New York: New Amsterdam Books. Condition very good in black cloth boards, DJ very good in protective mylar cover glued to the boards, ex-library with usual markings, clean tight copy, very small remainder mark on bottom. From Publishers Weekly: This distinctive novel is that rare book that takes an issue--the exploitation and isolation of the handicapped and the disabled--and places it within the context of society at large. Boston plastic surgeon Jasper Whiting leaves his wife and children to live in a dump of an apartment in Boston's squalid North End. Almost immediately, he meets Rhoda, a mercurial yet courageous woman who teaches "special" children. Through her, he encounters an extraordinary riff-raff of personalities: Luigi, the one-legged gay photographer who is catapulted to stardom as a model; the deaf-mute Anselmo, whose handicaps obscure his brilliant mind; Alex Thane, a priest lately back from Lebanon where he witnessed the massacre of his disabled students. Not least of them… Read More

Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee Publisher, 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Type: Book The book is about a successful plastic surgeon who leaves his family to live alone in a run-down block of houses in Boston's North End. His life is transformed by his relations with the people he meets in this unpromising setting and is forced to declare himself in his actions. There is a hint of soiling on the edge pages. The pages are clean and crisp.

NY: New Amsterdam. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1989. First US Edition. Hardcover. 0941533670 .

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.