FREE: The Swap by Norma Klein (1984, Paperback)

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Condition: Good : Acceptable to good condition, Wear on binding, some ink stains on bottom of pages.. about a dime size

Widower Misha Edelman, 50, a used-car salesman who hates cars, still grieves for wife Brenda, son Seth, and a baby grandchild --all killed in an auto accident two years before. Then, in his upstate New York car lot, Misha sees sullen Jed Parker, 17, and his pregnant girl friend Maddy, 15. And, thinking of his own present inertia, Misha sympathizes some with the father-to-be. Meanwhile, Jed is reluctantly agreeing to marriage--now that Maddy, refusing an abortion, is over seven-months pregnant. Kicked out of the house by her mother, Maddy earnestly attempts to achieve her fuzzy concept of Wifehood that Works; Jed, indifferent, finds a job in the Grounds department of Coolidge College--and also finds great sex with exciting Capri Gould, an aggressive, bright student. Then Maddy has her baby: Minerva, an ugly little mite with floppy ears and one crossed eye, whose screams drive Jed out into the night. So the hopeless marriage of frightened Maddy and frustrated Jed begins to close down. . . while Misha is having an affair with Brenda's twin sister--bouncy, comforting Ardis, happily married but efficiently cheating on silent husband Simon. And finally, when Maddy discovers, to her horror that she doesn't love Minerva, there'll be new lives all around: Maddy will give Minerva away--to a reborn Misha; Jed, free at last, proposes to Capri, who's headed instead for Harvard and medicine.

ISBN-10: 0380685280
ISBN-13: 9780380685288
Publication Year: 1984
Author: Norma Klein
Subject: Drama
Format: Mass Market, Book