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Robinson, Marilynne Gilead : A Novel
New York Farrar Straus & Giroux 2004 0-374-15389-2 / 9780374153892 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover
Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Beige boards quarterbound in beige cloth. The spine is stamped in silver. Octavo. 247pps. There is a small, unobtrusive remainder dot on the bottom edge, otherwise Fine: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Yet to be read. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has a slight abrasion on the rear panel; the original price is intact. The highly-acclaimed author's second novel (fourth book), winner of The National Book Critics Circle Award as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
"...In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowa preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Christ bound in chains and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition: He 'preached men into the Civil War,' then, at age fifty, became a chaplain in the Union Army, losing his right eye in battle. Reverend Ames writes to his son about the tension between his father -- an ardent pacifist -- and his grandfather, whose pistol and bloody shirts, concealed in an army blanket, may be relics from the fight between the abolitionists and those settlers who wanted to vote Kansas into the union as a slave state. And he tells a story of the sacred bonds between fathers and sons, which are tested in his tender and strained relationship with his namesake, John Ames Boughton, his best friend's wayward son.
This is also the tale of another remarkable vision -- not a corporeal vision of God but the vision of life as a wondrously strange creation. It tells how wisdom was forged in Ames's soul during his solitary life, and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten..."
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45.00 USD
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Robinson, Marilynne Gilead : A Novel
New York Farrar Straus & Giroux 2004 0-374-15389-2 / 9780374153892 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover
Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Beige boards quarterbound in beige cloth. The spine is stamped in silver. Octavo. 247pps. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The textblock is immaculate; no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is faintly rubbed at the tips; the original price is intact. The highly-acclaimed author's second novel (fourth book), winner of The National Book Critics Circle Award as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
"...In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. Ames is the son of an Iowa preacher and the grandson of a minister who, as a young man in Maine, saw a vision of Christ bound in chains and came west to Kansas to fight for abolition: He 'preached men into the Civil War,' then, at age fifty, became a chaplain in the Union Army, losing his right eye in battle. Reverend Ames writes to his son about the tension between his father -- an ardent pacifist -- and his grandfather, whose pistol and bloody shirts, concealed in an army blanket, may be relics from the fight between the abolitionists and those settlers who wanted to vote Kansas into the union as a slave state. And he tells a story of the sacred bonds between fathers and sons, which are tested in his tender and strained relationship with his namesake, John Ames Boughton, his best friend's wayward son.
This is also the tale of another remarkable vision -- not a corporeal vision of God but the vision of life as a wondrously strange creation. It tells how wisdom was forged in Ames's soul during his solitary life, and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten..."
Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books.
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80.00 USD
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