Songs for the Butcher's Daughter by Peter Manseau - 2008

Free Press, 2008-09-09. hardcover. Good. 6x1x9.

Free Press, 2008-09-09. hardcover. Good. 6x1x9.

Free Press, 2008. Hardcover. Very Good. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Free Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Free Press. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp.

Free Press. Used - Very Good. 2008. Hardcover. Very Good.

Free Press. Used - Like New. 2008. Hardcover. Slight Shelf Wear; Otherwise, Fine. Dust Jacket is Fine.

New York: Free Press, 2008. A nice reading copy. Pages are clean and bright. Binding is tight. Book and jacket show some shelfwear. Jacket has been mylared for protection. Deckled page edges. There is a remainder mark on the bottom page edge. . First Edition, 1st printing. Hard Cover. Very Good -/Good +.

New York: Free Press, 2008. Review pages laid in. "National Jewish Book Awards Winner" ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-3870-7 White covers with gold lettering on spine. 370 pages.. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Free Press, 2008. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. ARC. New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reader's Edition/Uncorrected Proofs. Reminiscent of Nicole Krauss's THE HISTORY OF LOVE, Peter Manseau's SONGS FOR THE BUTCHER'S DAUGHTER introduces us to two people who meet for the first time in the twilight of the twentieth century: Itsik Malpesh, a nintey-something Russian immigrant who is the last Yiddish poet in America, and his twenty-one-year-old American translator. In a book warehouse in western Massachusetts one sweltering summer, a man at the beginning of his adult life--and at the end of his career rope--becomes involved with a woman, a language, and a great lie that will define his future. Most suspiciously of all, he runs across Itsik Malpesh and a set of accounting ledgers in which Malpesh has written his memoirs, twenty-two volumes brimming with so much adventure, drama, deception, passion, and wit that the young man is compelled to… Read More