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Sy Levin, a high school teacher beset by alcohol and bad decisions, leaves New York for the Pacific Northwest to start over, imagining that an extraordinary new life awaits him there. Soon after arriving, he realizes that he had fallen for the myth of the West as a place of personal reinvention.

Additional Contributors: Lethem, Jonathan

Publisher: New York - Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Pages: 367

Edition: Farrar, Straus and Giroux pbk ed

ISBN: 0374529493

Language: English

Statement of responsibility: Bernard Malamud ; [introduction by Jonathan Lethem]

Physical description: x, 367 p. ; 21 cm

Other author misc: Lethem, Jonathan

Call number: FIC MALAMUD 2004

Library Identifier 2261728

Description: Sy Levin, a high school teacher beset by alcohol and bad decisions, leaves New York for the Pacific Northwest to start over, imagining that an extraordinary new life awaits him there. Soon after arriving, he realizes that he had fallen for the myth of the West as a place of personal reinvention.

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inspired by Amis Lucky Jim recommended by Yardley in Second Reading http://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/show/641626026_second_reading inspriation for David Lodge's Changing Places http://ottawa.bibliocommons.com/item/show/570294026_changing_places

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