num_pages: 366
description: Subtitled "a romance", Sabbatical is the story of Susan Rachel Allan Seckler, a sharp young associate professor of early American literature - part Jewish, part Gypsy, and possibly descended from Edgar Allan Poe - and her husband Fenwick Scott Key Turner, a 50-year-old ex-CIA officer currently between careers, a direct descendant of the author of "The Star Spangled Banner" and himself the author of a troublemaking book about his former employer. Seven years into their marriage, they decide to take a sabbatical, a sailboat journey on which they sum up their years together and try to make important decisions about the years ahead. (Google Books)
language: English
title: Sabbatical: A Romance
titlecomplete: Sabbatical: A Romance (American Literature Series)
genres: 20th Century, American, Literary Fiction, Novels, American Fiction, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 340
publisher: Dalkey Archive Press