Retired Virginia obstetrician John Livesey, recently widowed and discouraged by the world's crumbling morals, meets a man who has just performed an unnecessary cesarean section on his wife so as to be the one to deliver their child. Though initially appalled by the act, Livesey finds himself recalling it later when he learns a friend is dying of cancer, when his affair with a younger woman ends in disillusionment, and when, during an extended visit to his son and his family in Oregon, he realizes his daughter-in-law's ...
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Retired Virginia obstetrician John Livesey, recently widowed and discouraged by the world's crumbling morals, meets a man who has just performed an unnecessary cesarean section on his wife so as to be the one to deliver their child. Though initially appalled by the act, Livesey finds himself recalling it later when he learns a friend is dying of cancer, when his affair with a younger woman ends in disillusionment, and when, during an extended visit to his son and his family in Oregon, he realizes his daughter-in-law's unborn baby does not belong to her husband. Coming to admire the calm directness with which the man took matters of life and death into his own hands, Livesey begins to reconsider what he values and what he will protect.
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Good in Good jacket. 5.75 x 8.5. Dj has heavy edge wear and minor soil, interior tight and clean, 147 pages, story of a 66 year old obstetrician whose daughter in-law is pregnant and he must decide to play or not play God when he finds out a secret about the baby.
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Near Fine. First edition thus, 2000. Softcover, 147 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy, some ink-stains to the rear cover, also light rubbing to the tips of the covers. Signed by Everett on the titlepage.
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Very Good in Very Good DJ. 147 pp. 8vo. Quarter cloth in dustjacket. First edition. Shelfwear to jacket, lt soiling, rear panel lightly scratched. Minor shelfwear to book, tiny stain to bottom edge, foxing to top edge. Inscribed by author on half title. Inscribed.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Signed by Author(s) Signed by Percival Everrett on the half title page and inscribed: "For----again, P.E. '87" Fine copy in a fine dust jacket in a mylar protector.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First/first in very good+ dustjacket. Not price clipped. Quarter bound: maroon cloth spine with gold lettering & ash grey paper covered boards faded at top & bottom edges. Clean, sound, tight binding. No markings or underling within text. Signed by Everett on title page (at '99 Annual Bread Loaf Writers Conference in Middlebury, Vermont).
