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      The Convalescent

      by Jessica Anthony
      Published
      Jul 2010
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      Literary Literary
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      240
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      The Convalescentis 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 ten thousand years of Hungarian history. Jessica Anthony, the inaugural winner of the Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, makes an unforgettable debut with an unforgettable hero: Rovar Ákos Pfliegman—unlikely bandit, unloved lover, and historian of the unimportant.

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      General Fiction

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      Historical Literary

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      First Edition Jul 2010 Grove Press ISBN 0802144950
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      Jun 2009 McSweeney's ISBN 193478110X
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      Jul 2010 Grove Press ISBN B003XVYZ90
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      Jul 2010 Grove/Atlantic, Inc. ISBN 0802197000
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