Singer
by Ira Sher
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- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0151014132
- ISBN 13
- 9780151014132
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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Synopsis
Against the backdrop of the Singer Sewing Company, a novel of phobias, obsessions, a string of motel fires, and a troubled friendship In the early 1980s,Milton Menger, a wealthy art dealer living in New Jersey, is called by an estranged friend, Charles Trembleman, with whom he’s had no contact in years. Charley is a traveling salesman for the Singer Sewing Company and his hands have just been badly burned in a motel fire near Memphis.He needs a driver so he can continue traveling and selling.Milty rises to the occasion.Together they embark on a journey across the South, visiting showrooms and staying in locally owned motels. Is it a coincidence that these motels keep going up in flames? With a DeLillo-like nostalgia for Americana, combined with the dark humor of a Coen brothers film, Ira Sher’s storytelling draws the reader in like a moth to the flame.
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- G0151014132I3N00
- Title
- Singer
- Author
- Ira Sher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- ISBN 10
- 0151014132
- ISBN 13
- 9780151014132
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Ny
- Date Published
- 2009
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