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Main gets started at S&S

07.12.07

Francesca Main has made her first acquisition for Simon & Schuster, snapping up British Commonwealth rights in Peter Manseau's Songs for the Butcher's Daugher from Patrick Walsh at Conville & Walsh for a good five-figure sum.

The book, which Main described as a "truly extraordinary novel", is the story of the self-proclaimed last great Yiddish poet, a Russian Jew in the final phase of his life, and his unlikely convergence with his future translator, a twenty-one-year-old Boston Catholic in his last term of college.

Main will publish in February 2009, after The Free Press publishes in the US in October 2008. She said: "It’s one of the most captivating, heart-wrenching and laugh-aloud funny books I have read in a long, long time and I’m thrilled that we’ll be publishing it here."

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