The Short Day Dying
de HOBBS, Peter
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa blanda
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Fine /No Jacket
- Librería
-
Hadley, Massachusetts, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
(London): Faber and Faber. (2005). Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers and dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Fine.
Sinopsis
This is the story of four seasons in the life of Charles Wenmoth, a twenty-seven-year-old apprentice blacksmith and Methodist lay preacher in Cornwall in 1870. Life is at its hardest; poverty is everywhere. Charles crosses and recrosses the raw, beautiful landscape, attending to the sick and helping the poor, preaching in chapels with ever-dwindling congregations. He questions his faith along the way but never quite loses it, balancing it with the pleasure he takes in nature, the light in the skies, the colors of the earth, and in his attachment to a girl to whom he is drawn by the piety and patience she maintains despite her long illness. Inspired by the language of his great-great-grandfather's diaries and the Bible, influenced by authors as diverse as Hardy, Blake, and Faulkner, Peter Hobbs has created a first novel of breathtaking ambition and stylistic innovation, and of enormous emotional power.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 916288
- Título
- The Short Day Dying
- Autor
- HOBBS, Peter
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Softcover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Editorial
- Faber and Faber
- Lugar de publicación
- (London)
- Fecha de publicación
- (2005)
Términos de venta
Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA
All books are First Editions or First American Editions in dust jackets unless otherwise noted and are returnable within 30 days.
Sobre el vendedor
Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Hadley, Massachusetts
Sobre Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA
We deal in rare books, specializing in modern literary first editions. We regularly issue catalogs of Modern Literature and less regularly issue catalogs of Native American Literature, the Literature of the Vietnam War and the 1960s, and Nature Writing. Ken is a former President of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. We maintain an office in Hadley, Massachusetts and welcome visitors by appointment. We are always interested in buying rare books, manuscripts, or related material in any of our areas of specialty and are happy to hear from anyone offering such items to us.
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Wrappers
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- Fine
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