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Shelter
by Phillips, Jayne Anne
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible - Near Fine/VeryGood
- ISBN 10
- 0395488907
- ISBN 13
- 9780395488904
- Seller
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Argillite, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
NY: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth spine. Collectible - Near Fine/VeryGood. 6.4"x9.25" 279 pp. 2nd printing w/2 on number line. Tan speckled boards w/gilt signature of author. Toast cloth spine w/gilt letters. Matching toast speckled paste downs. Front jacket design by Diana Coe. Front jacket photo: Jan Saudek. Author photo: Jerry Bauer. Book design by Anne Chalmers. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and soft white. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Edge and shelf wear to DJ w/tiny rubs. In a West Virginia girls camp in July 1963, a group of children experience an unexpected rite of passage. Shelter is an astonishing portrayal of an American loss of innocence as witnessed by a drifter named Parson, two young sisters, Lenny and Alma, and a feral boy. Like Buddy, the wide-eyed boy so at home in the natural bower of the forest, Lenny and Alma are forever transformed by violence, by family secrets, by surprising turns of love. What they choose to remember, what they meet within and around the boundaries of the camp, will determine the rest of their lives. In a leafy wilderness undiminished by societal rules and dilemmas, Lenny and Alma confront a terrible darkness and find in themselves a knowledge never lent them by the adult world.
Visceral, filled with suspense ...Source: Publisher.
Visceral, filled with suspense ...Source: Publisher.
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- Bookseller
- Blacks Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13889
- Title
- Shelter
- Author
- Phillips, Jayne Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover_cloth spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- VeryGood
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0395488907
- ISBN 13
- 9780395488904
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1994
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