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Saint Maybe is the rich and absorbing story of a young man's guilt over his brother's death and his struggle to atone for the wrong he feels he has done. On a quiet street in Baltimore in 1965, seventeen-year-old Ian Bedloe lives with his family in an "ideal, apple-pie household," enjoying the comfort of family traditions and indulging in all the usual dreams of the future.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Anne Tyler
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 348
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, Vintage, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- French, English, German
- ISBN
- 9780517128565
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