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Baby Jack: A Novel
Baby Jack A Novel
Author: Frank Schaeffer
Todd Ogden, an acclaimed painter with work in museums around the world and a seemingly successful thirty-year marriage to the Brahmin Sarah, is living and painting in his two-hundred-year-old Massachusetts farmhouse when his youngest child, Jack, chooses the Marines over college. Feeling puzzled and ultimately infuriated by his son's incomprehen...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780786720217
ISBN-10: 0786720212
Publication Date: 11/8/2007
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Da Capo Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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This is one of the most moving books I've read in a long time. I wasn't sure about it from the cover description, but something urged me to order it. I'm very glad I did. Shaeffer uses points of view from the 4 main characters but it is not at all hard to follow. While it sounds like a "tear-jerker", and you may need the tissues close by, it does not get maudlin at all.


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