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Paradise
by Toni Morrison
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679433740
- ISBN 13
- 9780679433743
- Seller
-
Scotia, New York, United States
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About This Item
1998 Knopf first edition, second printing. Author signed bookplate affixed to the front free endpaper.
Condition of the book is Near Fine. The binding is straight and sound. Inside pages are complete and unmarked. The main condition issue is a small light colored stain on the top edge of the text block (see center portion of the top edge in the last listing photo).
Condition of the dust jacket is Near Fine. The DJ is protected in a new mylar cover.
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Synopsis
"Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damaged infants were born in one family. Daughters refused to get out of bed. Brides disappeared on their honeymoons. Two brothers shot each other on New Year's Day. Trips to Demby for VD shots common. And what went on at the Oven these days was not to be believed . . . The proof they had been collecting since the terrible discovery in the spring could not be denied: the one thing that connected all these catastrophes was in the Convent. And in the Convent were those women."In Paradise--her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature--Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain," assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void "Out There . . . where random and organized evil erupted when and where it chose." Richly imagined and elegantly composed, Paradise weaves a powerful mystery.From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Harpo Speaks Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2680
- Title
- Paradise
- Author
- Toni Morrison
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition, second printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679433740
- ISBN 13
- 9780679433743
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction: Modern;
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About the Seller
Harpo Speaks Books
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Scotia, New York
About Harpo Speaks Books
I've been a book collector for over thirty years. In the past several years I have started to do more online selling.In online sales, I believe there is no such thing as a dumb question, or too much information. Feel free to contact me with any questions, or if you would like more information (including more photos) on any of the items I have listed.
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