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      King of the World King of the World

      by Merrill Joan Gerber
      Published
      Nov 1989
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      288
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      """Emotionally powerful but never maudlin.""—Library Journal


      Based on actual events, this shattering novel about wife and child abuse is a work of art that haunts the reader''s memory. Merrill Joan Gerber reveals the love affair of Ginny and her sensitive but horribly destructive lover, Michael. The pair adopts a child that Michael both loves and abuses. As Ginny struggles to rid herself of him and save her child, Michael becomes the incarnation of depravity.



      Winner of the Pushcart Press Editors'' Book Award (nominated by Cynthia Ozick).
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      Aug 1992 Pushcart Press ISBN13 9780916366728 ISBN10 0916366723
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      Nov 1989 Pushcart Press ISBN13 9780916366605 ISBN10 091636660X
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      Dec 2012 Dzanc Books ISBN10 B00ATLNIYK
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