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"S. Levin is ready to live, to love from the moment we meet him as he steps off the train in a small town in Cascadia (read Oregon), where he is at the age of 30 to take up a teaching career at Cascadia College. A bearded ex-alcoholic who has never before been out of New York City, Levin is seeking escape from a humiliating past and searching tentatively for a new life in a new setting."