GOLDMAN'S ANATOMY by Glenn Savan - FIRST EDITION BOOK

In his unforgettable first novel, White Palace, Glenn Savan brought to life two inimitable characters whose oddball union captured America's heart. With the incisive wit and dramatic flair that made that book a popular and critical success, in Goldman's Anatomy Savan now explores the lives of three friends whose interwoven needs, strengths, and vulnerabilities draw them into a delirious and all-encompassing triangle of love and obsession. Arnie Goldman and Redso Wolff have been on-again/off-again friends since high school. Arnie, who at twenty-five has established himself internationally as a prominent rock and gem dealer, is crippled by rheumatoid arthritis and depends on a pair of aluminum crutches for mobility. Intense, frenetic Redso is a brilliant but unstable aspiring playwright whose wild lifestyle takes him to rocky emotional extremes. When Redso unexpectedly reenters Arnie's life, he brings with him sensuous, earthy Billy Rubin, who has only recently been able to escape a sheltered life controlled by her eccentric rabbi father. As Redso begins to deteriorate mentally, Arnie struggles to suppress his own almost comic yearning for Billy. And Billy, for the first time free of her possessive father, is forced to choose between two different men, each demanding in his own way: one physically impaired, the other emotionally out of control. Against the backdrop of contemporary St. Louis, Savan tells an utterly original and audacious story of the fascination, rivalry, and retaliations that develop between three inexorably linked, strong-willed individuals. At once hilarious and heart-breaking, Goldman's Anatomy strikes Savan's trademark balance between comedy and drama. It is a riveting and high-spirited novel that explores the depths of love - in sickness and in health.