New. DJ does have some bumping and rubbing on the top, spine, edges, corners. On the back of DJ the upper corner has been cut and a small tear on the top, tail near the spine. Lower outer corner on back DJ has been rubbed. Outer edges could have the starting of tanning, browning, stains of foxing due to age and shelfwear. It's the story of a summer in the life of a boy growing up in a well-to-do family in a summer vacation town in Michigan. The story is told by a narrator, but the field of vision is entirely limited by the 8-year old's eyes and heart - and the boy misses nothing - so neither do we. His understandings and conclusions are all right out there, as they would be; the reader's are all between-the-lines, where they create an enormously protective attachment to young Tommy. A29.

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William McPherson (b. 1933) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning literary critic, editor, journalist, and novelist. Born and reared in Michigan, he attended three universities over the course of seven years but left before attaining a degree. After a stint in the Merchant Marine (he is still an able-bodied seaman), he started at The Washington Post as a copyboy in 1958, soon becoming a staff writer and editor. He spent several years as a senior editor at William Morrow & Co. and returned to the Post , first as its daily book editor, then as founding editor of its independent book section, Book World . Later he moved to the newspaper’s editorial page, where he selected the letters to the editor and wrote a weekly op-ed column. After a two-year leave of absence, he left the newspaper in 1987 to write full time. His first novel, Testing the Current , was originally published in 1984. A second, To the Sargasso Sea , published in 1987, took up the story of the first novel some thirty years later. In 1989 he went to Berlin as the Wall was coming down and ended up in Romania in early 1990, shortly after the fall of the Communist regime, intending to stay for three days. Instead, he spent most of the next six years there, writing about post-Communist Romania for The Washington Post , Granta , and The Wilson Quarterly . D. T. Max is a staff writer at The New Yorker . He is the author of The Family That Couldn’t Sleep: A Medical Mystery , published in 2007, and Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace , published in 2012.

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Bookseller: Better Bindings (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1362
Title: Testing the Current
Author: McPherson, William
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: New
ISBN 10: 0671252518
ISBN 13: 9780671252519
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Place of Publication: US
Date Published: 1984
Pages: 348
Bookseller catalogs: New;

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Shelfwear: Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
Tail: The heel of the spine.
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...