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Title

Responsible men / a novel by Edward Schwarzschild.

Author

Schwarzschild, Edward, 1964-

Publication

Chapel Hill : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2005.

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Description

332 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Max Wolinsky is forty-one and ethically challenged. He comes from a family of mostly upstanding salesmen. What makes him cross over the line from responsible man to con man is at the heart of this novel. What makes him step back is the soul of the story." "On the eve of his son's bar mitzvah, Max returns home to Philadelphia. Still reeling from the breakup of his marriage, Max plans to put the finishing touches on a not-so-honorable business transaction and then head back to Florida at the week's end. But coming home means coming to terms with his family. For one thing, it means facing the expectations of his father and the needs of his uncle, once the family's most charismatic salesman, who hasn't been able to speak coherently since his stroke. Then there's his son, whom he hasn't seen in a year and who has his own set of expectations." "If Max can be civil to his ex-wife, listen to his son, and pull off one last scam so his father and uncle can live a better life, everything might turn out all right. But Max doesn't figure on meeting Estelle. And he certainly doesn't count on his uncle, who, unbeknownst to anyone, has his own master plan for the family."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Fathers and sons > Fiction
• Divorced fathers > Fiction
• Jewish families > Fiction
• Sales personnel > Fiction
• Family reunions > Fiction
• Bar mitzvah > Fiction
• Philadelphia (Pa.) > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Domestic fiction.
• Jewish fiction.

ISBN

156512409X

LCCN

• 2004059780
• 9781565124097

OCLC

• ocm56753100
• SCSB-5173525

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries