Pataki An Autobiography (George) Leather and 11 similar items

It's the late Nineties on the Upper West Side and book publicist David Felb (nee Felber, nee Felberstein) can sense his world shrinking. He is stuck in the slow lane at ''a venerable second-tier publishing house'' and feeling the encroaching changes technology will bring as he struggles to maintain a bond with his wife and three young daughters. Into the void steps Fred ''Sure Shot'' Dunlap, a tweed-clad, waxed-mustached nineteenth-century baseball legend with still impeccable timing who died penniless and obscure and seems to need something from Felb. Or is it the other way around? Felb dutifully goes to weekly psychiatrist appointments at his wife's insistence, but when his hard-to-reach baseball-mad teenage daughter develops her own fascination, he can feel a chance to recapture something lost.Daniel Paisner's enchanting new novel about neurosis, intimacy, and balancing familial needs while juggling two careers and the demands of modern life is also a charming and memorable parable about losing your mind and finding yourself in the age of anxiety. Leather-bound, first edition, signed book in like new condition.