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Author Name: Gaddis, William
Title: Carpenter's Gothic
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A. Viking Penguin 1985
ISBN Number: 0-670-69793-1 / 9780670697939
Seller ID: 304-4174
Fine in a Good+ dustjacket. Brown boards quarterbound in tan cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt and metallic green. Octavo. 262pps. An excellent copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. No reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, has touches of rubbing and is chipped at the tips and the spine-ends; there is, also, a 1" tear with an attendant crease in the upper corner of the front panel. The original price is intact.
"...This story of raging comedy and despair centers on the tempestuous marriage of an heiress and a Vietnam veteran. From their 'carpenter gothic' rented house, Paul sets himself up as a media consultant for Reverend Ude, an evangelist mounting a grand crusade that conveniently suits a mining combine bidding to take over an ore strike on the site of Ude's African mission. At the still center of the breakneck action -- revealed in Gaddis's inimitable virtuoso dialoge -- is Paul's wife, Liz, and over it all looms the shadowy figure of McCandless, a geologist from whom Paul and Liz rent their house. As Paul mishandles the situation, his wife takes the geologist to her bed and a fire and aborted assassination occur; Ude issues a call to arms as harrowing as any Jeremiad -- and Armageddon comes rapidly closer..."
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MARRIED PEOPLE FICTION AMERICAN FICTIONAL WORKS AUTHOR LITERARY WILLIAM GADDIS CARPENTER'S GOTHIC FIRST EDITIONS LITERATURE REVEREND UDE
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