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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Published: Oct 1999
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $15.95
Pages: 170
A burnished day in September 1952 provides the framework for a narrative that movingly distills the lifetime of an uncommonly admirable if very human being. A new corrected edition.
'The Memory of Old Jack is a slab of rich Americana, eloquent testimony that `it's not a tragedy when a man dies at the end of his life.'' -The New York Times Book Review
'The account of Jack's courtship of his wife is a beautiful piece of writing...and worthy of a place among the best pieces of prose written by American writers of this century.'-Library Journal