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DuPont Circle [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
by Kafka-Gibbons, Paul
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0395869323
- ISBN 13
- 9780395869321
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About This Item
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. New in new dust jacket. SIGNED by author on the title page (signature only). 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. New, unread copy with dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve. 'Signed Copy' sticker. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 256 p. Audience: General/trade. Kafka-Gobbons is a dancer and Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author of 'Love Enter' and 'Judiciary Square'. Rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
Synopsis
DUPONT CIRCLE is a vivacious comedy of marriage and romance in all its contemporary guises. Set in the nation's capital, it revolves around the city's busy intersection where old meets young, gay meets straight, rich meets poor, and past meets present. The patrician Allard family has lived in the Dupont Circle neighborhood for generations. At the head of the family is the eminent judge Bailey Allard, whose character recalls the colorful, iconoclastic figure of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. When Bailey's grown children insist that their father find a housemate to share the lonely family mansion, a young law student, Louisa Robbins, answers his ad. The May-December romance that ensues is as much a surprise to Bailey and Louisa as it is to the family. Love and family intersect elsewhere for Bailey, too: the District Court of Appeals, where he presides, is faced with a case that has particular relevance for the Allards. Two men legally married in one state have been denied married status in the District of Columbia. Bailey's own son, Jon, is all but married to his companion, Peter. Bailey is determined to do legal battle to ensure his son's future happiness. As the Los Angeles Times said of Kafka-Gibbons's prizewinning LOVE <ENTER>, DUPONT CIRCLE is a "sprightly, intelligent romance that has all the features of hip contemporary writing, yet engages in precisely the ways that the best traditional fiction does." With great charm and goodwill, DUPONT CIRCLE engages both the issues and the heart.
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- Title
- DuPont Circle [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
- Author
- Kafka-Gibbons, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0395869323
- ISBN 13
- 9780395869321
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 2001
- Pages
- 248
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