West of Here
by Evison, Jonathan
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1565129520
- ISBN 13
- 9781565129528
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About This Item
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Title: West of Here. Algonquin Books, 2011. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, in pictorial jacket. 486 pages. Author: Jonathan Evison. Condition: FINE book, in a Near FINE jacket. Book is tightly bound, with crisp, unmarked pages. Attractive, unclipped jacket shows only very light creasing to top of spine. A very handsome copy. About this book:Set in the fictional town of Port Bonita, on Washington States rugged Pacific coast, West of Here is propelled by a story that both re-creates and celebrates the American experienceit is storytelling on the grandest scale. With one segment of the narrative focused on the towns founders circa 1890 and another showing the lives of their descendants in 2006, the novel develops as a kind of conversation between two epochs, one rushing blindly toward the future and the other struggling to undo the damage of the past. An exposition on the effects of time, on how something said or done in one generation keeps echoing through all the years that follow, and how mistakes keep happening and people keep on trying to be strong and brave and, most important, just and right, West of Here harks back to the work of such masters of Americana as Bret Harte, Edna Ferber, and Larry McMurtry, writers whose fiction turned history into myth and myth into a nations shared experience. It is a bold novel by a writer destined to become a major force in American literature. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 1565129520. ISBN/EAN: 9781565129528. Inventory No: 96COFX4LFJ. .
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- Bookseller
- Denton Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 96COFX4LFJ
- Title
- West of Here
- Author
- Evison, Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1565129520
- ISBN 13
- 9781565129528
- Publisher
- New York, NY, U.S.A.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- Fiction;
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