The convalescent
By: by Jessica Anthony
Series: McSweeney's rectangulars
Publisher: McSweeney's Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781934781104
Subjects: Fiction; Hungarian Americans; History
Description: The story of a small, bearded man selling meat out of a bus parked next to a stream in suburban Virginia . . . and also, somehow, the story of 10,000 years of Hungarian history. Jessica Anthony, the inaugural winner of the Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, makes an unforgettable debut with an unforgettable hero: Seymour Akos Pfliegman -- unlikely bandit, unloved lover, and historian of the unimportant.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (M.F.A. -- George Mason University).

Mode of access: Internet.