HANKY OF PIPPIN'S DAUGHTER de Rosmarie Waldrop - 2010-01-01

Barrytown/Station Hill Press. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

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Barrytown/Station Hill Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, Inc., 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. Susan Quasha (Jacket Design). 152 pp. Solidly bound copy with light signs of use. Small water mark on center page end. Otherwise, flawless copy. Synopsis: Writing from America to her sister in Germany, the protagonist of this shattering first novel reconstructs the life of her parents--in the author's words, "just those 'ordinary people' who helped Hitler rise." Unflinching in her appraisal, she imagines how her father's latent anti-Semitism was triggered by his wife's affair with a Jew, who was later sent to a concentration camp. The tone darkens as the narrator realizes that she and her sisters are living out variants of their mother's sexual model. "Wonderfully, relentlessly absorbing, HANKY's several overlapping tales leave one marvelling at the beauty, economy and humor with which Waldrop interweaves… Leer más

Barrytown, New York: Station Hill Press, 1986. A bright, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (14.95). No chips. No tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are clean and unmarked. Bound in the original lavender cloth, lettered in gold on the spine. The poet's first novel. Dust Jacket praise from John Hawkes: "A work of fiction unmistakably by a poet." From the Dust Jacket: "Two sisters are writing letters in an effort to find out who they are. They are comparing what they know of their origins in the Germany of rising Nazism. With each new layer of family history a phantom twin of dark secrets shows through. Now the erotic misadventures of their parents come sharply into view and disturb. In telling the story their own reality seems somehow shaken." . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine condition./Near Fine dust jacket.. Illus. by Quasha, Susan (jacket design). 8vo. (viii), 152pp..

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