000			01778nam a2200193 a 4500
001			ASIN0941533670
005			20111026050506.0
008			111026s1989 xxu eng d
020			_a0941533670 (hardcover) _c$18.95
020			_a9780941533676 (hardcover)
082	0	4	_a813.54
100	1		_aBloch, Don.
245	1	0	_aFace value / _cDon Bloch.
250			_aNew edition ed.
260			_a[PLACE OF PUBLICATION] : _bNew Amsterdam Books, _c1989.
300			_a346 p. ; _c23 cm.
520			_aWhen 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	4	0	_3Amazon.com _uhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0941533670/chopaconline-20
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