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Author:	Richard Bausch	Format:	Hardcover
Publisher:	Harpercollins	ISBN-10:	0060173327
ISBN-13:	9780060173326	Subject:	--
Publication Year:	1996	Topic:	--
Special Attributes:	--	Language:	English
Condition:	Acceptable

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Synopsis
In this coming-of-age novel, Walter Marshall can't decide between becoming a newsman like his idol, Edward R. Murrow, or running for president like his other idol, JFK. He's equally divided in his love life, attracted both to the kind and practical Alice to whom he's engaged, and the mysterious German Natalie.
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Length:	342 pages
Height:	9.8 in.
Width:	6.5 in.
Thickness:	1.0 in.
Weight:	23.2 oz.

Publisher's Note
Richard Baush's new novel is a comedy of innocence that is by turns funny and moving, gently nostalgic and profound. Set in 1964, the year after JFK's assassination, the story turns on young Walter Marshall, a devout, idealistic, amiable nineteen-year-old who lives at home with his mother and attends radio broad-casting school at night. Like many young men of the time, Walter has been stirred by the example of the recently martyred president, and has decided upon a life in politics. In fact, he has set his sights on the White House. There only remain the roughly twenty years of living to do before he can take up the torch. And Walter has some important lessons to learn, several of them involving women.... The story of this sheltered young man's very-much-less-than-suave fumbling toward manhood unfolds against the backdrop of powerful descriptions of a country in the midst of great change. Enchanting, sly, nostalgic in the truest sense, without ever being sentimental, Good EVENING MR. & MRS. AMERICA, AND ALL THE SHIPS AT SEA evokes the sense of a distant time and place that, after all, turns out to be a very recognizable and not so radically different America. By reminding us of who we have, it lets us see who we are.
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"[A] funny and delicate novel, in which the great events of public life blend inextricably with an intense drama of ordinary things....Mr. Bausch wonderfully captures (the sixties), not only by knowing the songs that were popular and what the political phrases were, but also by finely evoking what now seems a kind of innocence and wholesomeness striving to adapt to the new....Mr. Bausch spins [his] intricate and delicious story with a wondrously tender touch. There is an intermingling of the comic and the dangerous in the qualities and foibles of his characters....Mr. Bausch makes us wish that somehow things will be better for young Walter Marshall than we, looking back, have any reason to expect." New York Times - Richard Bernstein (09/25/1996) "In outlining the predicament of this earnest young fellow, Mr. Bausch works in far broader strokes than we expect from the author of such subtly drawn books as 'Violence' and 'Rebel Powers,' and the results are mixed. The action of the novel can be disconcertingly cartoonish....And the structure of the book is just a little too relaxed....The author is on steadier footing, however, when he tones down the humor and focuses on the moral education of his main character...." New York Times Book Review - Gary Krist (10/27/1996) "[A] blast of pure negation disguised as FORREST GUMP....This provocative book, unfortunately, is more fun to talk about than it is to read." Ellenberg

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0060173327
Title : Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. America, and All the Ships at Sea: A Novel
Authors : Richard Bausch
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher : Harpercollins
Publication Date : 1996-09
Pages : 342
List Price (MSRP) : 24.00
Height : 1.0000 inches
Width : 6.5000 inches
Length : 9.7500 inches
Weight : 1.4500 pounds
Keywords : Contemporary, General
Condition : New

Description: Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED by the author on the title page.

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