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The apartment : a novel / Greg Baxter.

by Baxter, Greg.

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Apartment dwellers -- Fiction.

Authorship -- Fiction.

Friendship -- Fiction.

Guilt -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction.

City and town life -- Europe -- Fiction.

Americans -- Europe -- Fiction.

Europe -- Fiction.

9781455548361 (2014 trade pbk.)

1st Grand Central Publishing ed.

One snowy holiday morning in an old European city, an American man leaves his shabby hotel to meet a local woman who has agreed to help him search for an apartment to rent. Told with an affecting and intimate tone that gradually expands in scope, intensity, poetry, and drama, this novel follows the couple across a vague and frozen city on a single day, into a past the man is hoping to forget, and leaving them at the doorstep of an uncertain future. A complex meditation on America's relationship with a new Europe that ingeniously measures our feeble attempts to cure violence with violence, the author's clear-eyed first novel provides an unflinching portrait of the ways that guilt shapes us, and demonstrates an ultimately redemptive faith in the alchemies and uncertainties of friendship and love. -- Publisher.

Psychological fiction.

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