New York, New York, U.S.A.: Riverhead Books, 2013. First Thus 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First American Edition (First Thus) With The Number Line Indicating A First Printing. The Book Is Bound Within Boards With One Quarter Black Over Gray Paper. Silver Lettering And Rule On The Spine. The Unclipped Jacket Has A Mostly Faint Circle Stain On The Front. Poplar Farm Has Been In Louise'S Family For Generations, Inherited By Her Sharecropping Forbearer From A White Landowner After A Lynching. Now The Farm Has Been Carved Up, The Trees Torn Down-A Mini-Massacre Replicating The History Of Many Farms Before It, And The Destruction Of Lives And Societies Taking Place All Across America. - Front Flap.

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From the critically acclaimed author of Absolution , a literary page-turner set in the American heartland. Poplar Farm has been in Louise’s family for generations, inherited by her sharecropping forbearer from a white landowner after a lynching. Now the farm has been carved up, the trees torn down—a mini-massacre replicating the history of many farms before it, and the destruction of lives and societies taking place all across America. Architect of this destruction is Paul Krovik, a property developer soon driven insane by the failure of his ambition. Left behind is a half-finished “luxury suburb” of neo-Victorian homes on the outskirts of a sprawling midwestern city. To Paul it is a collapsed dream, but to Julia and Nathaniel, arriving from their small Boston apartment, it is a new start, promising a bucolic future. With their son, Copley, they buy Paul’s signature home in a foreclosure sale and move in to their brave new world. Yet violence lies just beneath the surface of this land, and simmers deep within Nathaniel. The remaining trees bear witness, Louise lives on in her beleaguered farmhouse, and as reality shifts, and the edges of what is right and wrong blur and then vanish, Copley becomes convinced that someone is living in the house with them.

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Bookseller: Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA) (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 044877
Title: Fallen Land: A Novel
Author: Flanery, Patrick
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Thus 1st Printing
ISBN 10: 1594631808
ISBN 13: 9781594631801
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Place of Publication: New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2013
Pages: 406
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Keywords: Real Estate Development - Fiction; Ambition - Fiction; Failure (Psychology) - Fiction.

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