A Severed Wasp
by L'engle, Madeleine
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stated first printing, inscribed by L'engle on title page. Very good with some shelf wear to boards in very good jacket.
Synopsis
A Severed Wasp, is a novel by Madeleine L'Engle. It continues the story of a pianist, Katherine Forrester, who was first seen in The Small Rain. Now a widow in her seventies, Katherine Forrester Vigneras returns to New York City in retirement from concert touring in Europe. There she encounters Felix Bodeway, an old friend from her Greenwich Village days, who is now the retired Episcopal Bishop of New York. He asks Katherine to give a benefit concert at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1241
- Title
- A Severed Wasp
- Author
- L'engle, Madeleine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
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