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THE HEATHER BLAZING
by Toibin, Colm
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0330321242
- ISBN 13
- 9780330321242
- Seller
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Fernandina Beach, Florida, United States
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About This Item
London: Picador, 1992. First edition, first prnt. Signed by Toibin on the title page. Front board corners bumped (one just tapped), board cloth slightly rubbed (not immediately apparent); dustjacket with small UK bookstore sticker on front flap (with printed price visible and intact). Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Toibin's second novel.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
The sea is slowly eating into the land and the hill with the old watchtower has completely disappeared. The nearest house has crumbled and fallen into the sea. It is Ireland in the late twentieth century. Eamon Redmond is a judge in the Irish High Court. Obsessed all his life by the letter and spirit of the law, he is just beginning to discover how painfully unconnected he is from other human beings. With effortless fluency, Colm Toibin reconstructs the history of Eamon's relationships—with his father, his first "girl," his wife, and the children who barely know him. He gives us a family as minutely realized as any of John McGahern's, and he writes about Eamon's affection for the landscape of his childhood on the east coast of Ireland with such skill that the land itself becomes a character. The result is a novel that ensnares us with its emotional intensity and dazzles with its crystalline prose. In The Heather Blazing , Colm Toibin displays once again the gifts that illuminated The South , a book described by Don DeLillo as "a grand achievement," and by John Banville as "a daring imaginative feat...a splendid first novel."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40813
- Title
- THE HEATHER BLAZING
- Author
- Toibin, Colm
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0330321242
- ISBN 13
- 9780330321242
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- Signed First Edition
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA
Biblio member since 2005
Fernandina Beach, Florida
About Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA
Revere Books has offered collector-condition first editions primarily of 20th century American and British fiction and poetry since 1991. Signed copies are a specialty. Member, Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) & the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA).
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