Responsible Men

A Novel

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By Edward Schwarzschild

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Max Wolinsky comes from a family of mostly upstanding salesmen. On the eve of his son's bar mitzvah he returns home to Philadelphia where he plans to put the finishing touches on a not-so-honorable business transaction and then disappear quietly back to Florida. Nothing, however, goes as planned for this con man with a conscience.

Honest, funny, and moving, Responsible Men is a portrait of three generations of men struggling to be good sons and good fathers in a world of big dreams and bigger temptations.

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  • “Schwarzschild writes . . . with compelling insight and emotional power. It is a rare authorial gift.”—Chicago Tribune

On Sale
Sep 15, 2006
Page Count
352 pages
Publisher
Algonquin Books
ISBN-13
9781565125438

Edward Schwarzschild

About the Author

Edward Schwarzschild is the author of Responsible Men, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, a Book Sense Notable Pick, and finalist for both the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Samuel Goldberg and Sons Foundation Prize for Jewish Fiction. He is an associate professor at the University at Albany, SUNY, and a fellow at the New York State Writers Institute.

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