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Lark and Termite
by Phillips, Jayne Anne
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0375401954
- ISBN 13
- 9780375401954
- Seller
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Pueblo, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2009. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0375401954 . Signed and dated by Phillips. In 1950s West Virginia, an orphaned hydrocephalic nine-year-old boy is being raised by his older half sister and their aunt. Shortlisted for the National Book Award.; 254 pages; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
A rich, many-layered novel from one of our major writers, her first in nine years.Set in the 1950s in West Virginia and Korea, it is a story of the power of loss and love, the echoing ramifications of war, family secrets, dreams and ghosts, and the unseen, almost magical bonds that unite and sustain us.At its center: Lark and her brother, Termite, a child unable to walk and talk but full of radiance; their mother, Lola; their aunt, Nonie, who raises them; and Termite's father, Corporal Robert Leavitt, who finds himself caught up in the chaotic early months of the Korean War. Told with enormous imagination and deep feeling, the novel invites us into the hearts and thoughts of each of the leading characters; even into Termite's intricate, shuttered consciousness. We are with Leavitt, trapped by friendly fire. We see Lark's hopes for herself and Termite, and how she makes them happen. We learn of Lola's love for her soldier husband and children, and unravel the mystery of her relationship with Nonie. We discover the lasting connections between past and future on the night the town experiences an overwhelming flood, and we follow Lark and Termite as their lives are changed forever.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bungalow Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7879
- Title
- Lark and Termite
- Author
- Phillips, Jayne Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0375401954
- ISBN 13
- 9780375401954
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- 0375401954, Nineteen Fifties; Fiction.; Korean War, 1950-1953; Fiction.; West , Virginia; Fiction.; Domestic Fiction., Jayne Anne Phillips, Signed, FIRST Edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Bungalow Books, ABAA
Any item may be returned in original condition for any reason within a reasonable period and payment will be refunded.
About the Seller
Bungalow Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Pueblo, Colorado
About Bungalow Books, ABAA
We are a family owned bookstore, with an emphasis on crime fiction, and signed books. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of American (ABAA), and the Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA), and we exhibit regularly at book fairs.
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