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Pesetsky, Bette was born on November 16, 1932 in Milwaukee. Daughter of Louis Block and Rose McKnight.
(After an early childhood of desertion and betrayal, Raemu...)
After an early childhood of desertion and betrayal, Raemunde Howard is sent from Chicago to New York to live with her woe-is-me grandmother, who is already busy raising Rae's two cousins, Carrie and Lila. The three girls grow up together, united by the "common enemy" that this grandmother represents. Carrie and Lila attempt to civilize Rae by harnessing her unbecoming obsession with magic. The encourage her work as a fortune-teller at community functions, where she tells people things they don't want to hear. Then they watch her marry a succession of men and rise to fame as a world-class conjuror who sprinkles her spells with a little bit of Yiddish. Now Rae is Miz Magic, a magician with her own children's TV show, and cousin Carrie is jealously determined to dig up some dirt to sell to a scandal rag. "Rae was a strange girl, " Carrie writes to the Sunshine Publishing Company. "Rae is a strange woman. Does she dabble in the occult? In black magic? I'll find out - of that you can be certain." Miz Magic, the central mystery of Cast a Spell, is not psychic but observant; she learns that tricks and children keep her this side of tragedy. In Rae, Pesetsky has created a remarkably stalwart character, who serves to warn us that every point of view has its limitations and distortions and that what is touted as scandal just might be common pain.
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Publisher: Knopf Date of Publication: 1981 Binding: hard cover Edition: First Edition Condition: Very Good/Good Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0-394-52079-3 Copyright date is 1981, 1st edition, blue and tan cover with gold lettering and design on the front and spine. Book has no tears or bent pages nor any writing. D/j has a small tear on the bottom right near the fore edge and a dent on the front on the groove. not price clipped. Minor shelf wear to the edges and to the spine. Bright, clean text with a tight binding, a solid book.<
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Pesetsky, Bette was born on November 16, 1932 in Milwaukee. Daughter of Louis Block and Rose McKnight.
Bachelor, Washington University, St. Louis, 1954. Master of Fine Arts, University Iowa, 1959.
Visiting professor, Writers Workshop University Iowa, Iowa City, 1990-1991. Visiting professor, department English and comparative studies University California, Irvine, 1992-1993. Visiting professor department English St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, 1994.
Distinguished visiting fiction writer Wichita (Kansas) State University, 1994. Distinguished visiting professor department English University Miami, 1997. Piaker visiting professor department English, general literature and rhetoric State University of New York, Binghamton, 2002.
Writer-in-residence English department New College of Florida, Florida State University, Sarasota, since 2004.
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Member of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association.
Married Irwin Pesetsky, 1956. 1 child David.