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The Convalescent by Jessica Anthony is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Convalescent about?
{ Oct 2020 - epub revisions. Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, content separation, and epub format error checking. } Hardcover, 240 pages Published 2009 The Convalescent is the story of a small, bearded man selling meat out of a bus parked next to a stream in suburban Virginia...and also, somehow, the story of ten thousand years of Hungarian history. Jessica Anthony, the inaugural winner of the Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, makes an unforgettable debut with an unforgettable hero: Rovar Ákos Pfliegmand--unlikely bandit, unloved lover, and historian of the unimportant.
Who reads The Convalescent?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Jessica Anthony
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780802197009
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 3.7 / 5 (677 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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