A new life.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1961
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
Description: Sy Levin, a 30-year-old high school teacher beset by alcohol and bad decisions, leaves New York for the Pacific Northwest to start over as a college professor, imagining that an extraordinary new life awaits him there. Soon after arriving, he realizes that he had fallen for the myth of the West as a place of personal reinvention.