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Charles Baxter

earliest edition we have, 1987 Viking, 1987 286 pages

In a novel of extraordinary resonance and power, Charles Baxter takes us backward through the lives of Hugh and Dorsey Welch, a brother and sister born and raised in a small Michigan town. We meet them as adults - Dorsey, an eminent astrophysicist, Hugh a quiet unassuming Buick salesman in their hometown - and discover their pasts: difficult marriages, dark and destructive love affairs, moments of triumph, of disappo...

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First light edition · 2012 · Vintage Books · 286 pages · 9780307948519
First light edition · 1988 · Penguin Books · 286 pages
First light edition · 1987 · Viking · 286 pages
First Light paperback · 1987 · NY: VIKING. 1987 · 9781921758256

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