Saul and Patsy (32 page)
Charles Baxter
SAUL
and
PATSY
Charles Baxter lives in Minneapolis and teaches at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of seven previous works of fiction, including the 2000 National Book Award finalist
The Feast of Love.
Also by Charles Baxter
FICTION
The Feast of Love
Believers
Shadow Play
A Relative Stranger
First Light
Through the Safety Net
Harmony of the World
POETRY
Imaginary Paintings
ESSAYS
Burning Down the House
FIRST VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES EDITION, APRIL 2005
Copyright © 2003 by Charles Baxter
Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks and Vintage Contemporaries is a trademark of Random House, Inc.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
University of California Press: Excerpt from the poem “I Know a Man” from
Collected
Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945–1975.
Copyright © 1982 by The Regents of the University of California. .
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.: “Saul and Patsy Are Pregnant” from A Relative Stranger by Charles Baxter. Copyright © 1990 by Charles Baxter. . W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Portions of this work have been previously published as: “Saul and Patsy Are Getting Comfortable in Michigan” in
Through the Safety Net: Stories
(Viking Books, 1985); “Saul and Patsy Are in Labor” in
Believers
(Pantheon Books, 1997).
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Pantheon edition as follows:
Baxter, Charles, 1947–
Saul and Patsy / Charles Baxter.
p. cm.
1. High school teachers—Fiction. 2. Married people—Fiction. 3. Michigan—Fiction.
I. Title.
PS3552.A854S28 2003
813’.54—dc21
2003042027
eISBN: 978-0-307-42761-8
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