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BIG STONE GAP; A Novel
by Trigiani, Adriana
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375504036
- ISBN 13
- 9780375504037
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Very Fine. SIGNED by the Author on title page, tall 8vo (9 1/2" x 6 3/8"), black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over forest green boards, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a street with houses in a green-yellow haze by Rachel Wood, [viii] + 272 pages + [2] About the Author + [2] About the Type. Adriana Trigiani is an Italian American best-selling author of sixteen books, television writer, film director, and entrepreneur based in Greenwich Village, New York City. BIG STONE GAP is a novel based on her Appalachian childhood in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Her best-selling Big Stone Gap series consists of BIG STONE GAP (2000), Big Cherry Holler (2001), Milk Glass Moon (2002), and Home to Big Stone Gap (2006), set in her Virginia hometown.--Wiki SIGNED & in EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION internally & externally! No remainder markings.
Synopsis
Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the tiny town of Big Stone Gap is home to some of the most charming eccentrics in the state. Ave Maria Mulligan is the town's self-proclaimed spinster, a thirty-five year old pharmacist with a "mountain girl's body and a flat behind." She lives an amiable life with good friends and lots of hobbies until the fateful day in 1978 when she suddenly discovers that she's not who she always thought she was. Before she can blink, Ave's fielding marriage proposals, fighting off greedy family members, organizing a celebration for visiting celebrities, and planning the trip of a lifetime--a trip that could change her view of the world and her own place in it forever. Brimming with humor and wise notions of small-town life, Big Stone Gap is a gem of a book with a giant heart. . . .From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3498
- Title
- BIG STONE GAP; A Novel
- Author
- Trigiani, Adriana
- Format/Binding
- Cloth and boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375504036
- ISBN 13
- 9780375504037
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Poverty, hillbillies, sex, feuding, pharmacy, eccentrics, humor, snake-handling, coal, mining, Virginia, country
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Lake Forest, Illinois
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