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Ursula,Under
de Ingrid Hill
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Ver descripción
- ISBN 10
- 1565123883
- ISBN 13
- 9781565123885
- Librería
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Walcott, Iowa, United States
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EUR 61.49EUR 52.27
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Sobre este artículo
Ursula, a 2 1/2 year old girl is indeed Under, having fallen down a mine shaft. Being from a poor family seemed to some enough reason to question spending time and money on a rescue. The Novel will tell the story of what happens to Ursula and at 476 pages, it's quite the story. Grey paper boards with black spine having silver lettering. This fine First Edition, First printing book is signed by the author on the title page.
Sinopsis
In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a dangerous rescue effort draws the ears and eyes of the entire country. A two-and-a-half-year-old girl has fallen down a mine shaft—"the only sound is an astonished tiny intake of breath from Ursula as she goes down, like a penny into the slot of a bank, disappeared, gone." It is as if all hope for life on the planet is bound up in the rescue of this little girl, the first and only child of a young woman of Finnish extraction and her Chinese-American husband. One TV viewer following the action notes that the Wong family lives in a decrepit mobile home and wonders why all this time and money is being "wasted on that half-breed trailer-trash kid." In response, the novel takes a breathtaking leap back in time to visit Ursula's most remarkable ancestors: a third-century-B.C. Chinese alchemist; an orphaned playmate of a seventeenth-century Swedish queen; Professor Alabaster Wong, a Chautauqua troupe lecturer (on exotic Chinese topics) traveling the Midwest at the end of the nineteenth century; her great-great-grandfather Jake Maki, who died at twenty-nine in a Michigan iron mine cave-in; and others whose richness and history are contained in the induplicable DNA of just one person—little Ursula Wong. Ursula's story echoes those of her ancestors, many of whom so narrowly escaped not being born that her very existence—like ours—comes to seem a miracle. Ambitious and accomplished, Ursula, Under is, most of all, wonderfully entertaining—a daring saga of culture, history, and heredity.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Lamplighter Library
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 31
- Título
- Ursula,Under
- Autor
- Ingrid Hill
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 1565123883
- ISBN 13
- 9781565123885
- Editorial
- Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Lugar de publicación
- Chapel Hill, NC
- Fecha de publicación
- 2004
- Palabras clave
- culture, history, heredity, child
- Size
- 6 X 9 inch
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