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Ian Bedloe is a 17-year-old who comes from a lower-middle-class background in Baltimore. He believes he caused the suicide of his brother Dan because of a conversation they had shortly before Dan's death. Dan's wife also dies soon after her husband, and Ian, feeling intense guilt, atones by caring for their three orphaned children. On the advice of a local minister, he quits college, becomes a carpenter, maintains his celibacy, and works his way toward expiation. His reward for such service is long in coming, and arrives in a wholly unexpected form.
| Size | | Height: | 6.8 in | | Width: | 4.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 6.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Tyler is a master at capturing the evolution of families over time, at poignantly conveying a sense of the long, slow decades during which nothing much seems to happen, while in fact everything is happening.... For there is a kind of magic at work in this novel."
Washington Post Book World - Bruce Bawer
"So nimbly does Ms. Tyler write.... Each character in 'Saint Maybe' has been fully rendered, fleshed out with a palpable interior life, and each has been fit, like a hand-sawed jigsaw-puzzle piece, into the matrix of family life. The result is a warm and generous novel, a novel that attests once again to Ms. Tyler's enormous gifts as a writer and her innate understanding of the mysteries of kinship and blood."
New York Times - Michiko Kakutani
"'Saint Maybe' is vintage Tyler, delicately stamped, like a watermark, with her intimate and unmistakable voice.... An arresting novel."
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