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THE STORY OF A MARRIAGE
de Greer, Andrew Sean
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Aceptable/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0374108668
- ISBN 13
- 9780374108663
- Librería
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York, N. Y., U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2008. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed bt Pulitzer Prize-winning author Andrew Sean Greer on title page in black fountain ink. "We think we know the ones we love." So Pearlie Cook begins her indirect and devastating exploration of the mystery at the heart of every relationship, how we can ever truly know another person. It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset district of San Francisco, caring not only for her husband's fragile health but also for her son, who is afflicted with polio. Then, one Saturday morning, a stranger appears on her doorstep and everything changes. All the certainties by which Pearlie has lived are thrown into doubt. Does she know her husband at all? And what does the stranger want in return for his offer of $100,000? For six months in 1953, young Pearlie Cook struggles to understand the world around her, most especially her husband, Holland. Pearlie's story is a meditation not only on love but also on the effects of war-with one war just over and another one in Korea coming to a close. Set in a climate of fear and repression-political, sexual, and racial-THE STORY OF A MARRIAGE portrays three people trapped by the confines of their era, and the desperate measures they are prepared to take to escape it. Lyrical and surprising, THE STORY OF A MARRIAGE looks back at a period that we tend to misremember as one of innocence and simplicity. Fine, unread, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket.[Not remainder-marked or prce-clipped] BUND
Sinopsis
It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset district of San Francisco, caring not only for her husband?s fragile health but also for her son, who is afflicted with polio. Then, one Saturday morning, a stranger appears on her doorstep and everything changes. All the certainties by which Pearlie has lived are thrown into doubt as she struggles to understand the world around her, most especially her husband, Holland. The Story of a Marriage portrays three people trapped by the confines of their era, and the desperate measures they are prepared to take to escape it.
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- Librería
- Joe Staats, Bookseller
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 020517
- Título
- THE STORY OF A MARRIAGE
- Autor
- Greer, Andrew Sean
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0374108668
- ISBN 13
- 9780374108663
- Editorial
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, N. Y., U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación
- 2008
- Páginas
- 195
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- LCCN
- 2007046835
- Product_type
- 2
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Los Angeles, California
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We specialize in collectible, contemporary signed first editions. First edition means the first printing. (Later printings of the first edition are typically not printed on acid-free paper, and should be avoided by collectors.) Signatures are obtained by us in person. Inscribed books sold by us may contain a line, a phrase, or a sketch that the author has chosen to add. Our signed books are not dedicated to anybody in particular (not to your grandmother, your Aunt Gladys, your ex-lover or your former cellmate), except in the rare case of a presentation copy from an author to a noteworthy person. All our books are hardcover, unless the book is an Advance Reading Copy, Uncorrected Proof, or PBO. You can expect that the books we send you will be as described, and in a physical condition worthy of the author’s having signed them. We do not sell remainder-marked books, signed or otherwise
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- First Edition
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