The Rowing Lesson

Anne Landsman

Original title: The rowing lesson

earliest edition we have, 2007 Granta, 2008 279 pages

Utterly convincing and vivid fictional portrait of a South African life. Pregnant with her first child, Betsy Klein is summoned from her home in the USA to her father's hospital bed in South Africa. Harold Klein is sensual, irascible, a passionately committed doctor, and a complex husband and father. As Betsy sits and waits for him to stir from his coma, she is compelled to imagine his life.

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The rowing lesson edition · 2009 · Granta · 9781847080707
The rowing lesson edition · 2008 · Granta · 279 pages · 9781862079892
The Rowing Lesson hardcover · 2007 · Soho Press · 288 pages · 9781569474693

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