Prisoner's DilemmaThe magnificent second novel from the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Overstory and Playground. Accomplished . . . mature and assured. . . . A major American novelist. New Republic Something is wrong with Eddie Hobson, Sr., father of four, sometime history teacher, quiz master, black humorist, and virtuoso invalid. His recurring fainting spells have worsened, and given his ingrained aversion to doctors, his worried family tries to discover the

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