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Saint Maybe

Anne Tyler

1991337 pagesabout 5–8 hours
1991
first published
  • 1991Franklin Library · 337 pages · ENGISBN 9780679407713
  • 1991Knopf · 337 pages · ENGISBN 9780679403616
  • 1991Viking · 337 pages · ENGISBN 9780670841929
  • 1991Ivy Books · 373 pages · ENGISBN 9780804108744
  • 1992Vintage · 337 pages · ENGISBN 9780099914709
  • 2002ISIS · 443 pages · ENGISBN 9780753166482
  • 1996Ballantine Books · 352 pages · ENGISBN 9780449911600
  • 1999Tandem Library · 352 pages · ENGISBN 9780785727071

Saint Maybe is the rich and absorbing story of a young man's guilt over his brother's death and his struggle to atone for the wrong he feels he has done. On a quiet street in Baltimore in 1965, seventeen-year-old Ian Bedloe lives with his family in an "ideal, apple-pie household," enjoying the comfort of family traditions and indulging in all the usual dreams of the future. Until one night, when Ian's stinging words to his brother bring tragedy -- and from that careless moment on nothing can ever be the same.

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