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|---|---|
| fixed length control field | 01778nam a2200193 a 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | ASIN0941533670 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20111026040513.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 111026s1989 xxu eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0941533670 (hardcover) |
| Terms of availability | $18.95 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780941533676 (hardcover) |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 813.54 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bloch, Don. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Face value / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Don Bloch. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | New edition ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | [PLACE OF PUBLICATION] : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | New Amsterdam Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 1989. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 346 p. ; |
| Dimensions | 23 cm. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | When Jasper Whiting, a successful plastic surgeon, leaves his family to live alone in a run-down block of houses in Boston's North End, he does not imagine how his life and what he has lived for will be transformed by his relations with the people he meets in that unpromising setting: by the bizarrely beautiful, strangely wise one-legged model, Luigi Sasekawa; by the quadraplegic boy upstairs, who inspires devotion in the people who help to take care of him; and most of all by Rhoda, a remarkable woman, teacher of the handicapped and later the director of a guerrilla opera for and about them, whom Jasper comes to love. And when the physically handicapped of the city begin to band together under a charismatic leader who means to make a revolution with these "wretched of the earth," Jasper too is forced to declare himself in his actions, as nothing in his past life has brought him to do. Don Bloch's fifth novel–solidly contemporary in its spirit and in its setting of urban violence, but strangely visionary in its theme–is at once comic, troubling, and passionate. Like Jasper Whiting, its readers may be first taken aback and then compelled by this adventurous fiction. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Amazon.com |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0941533670/chopaconline-20">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0941533670/chopaconline-20</a> |
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