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LARK AND TERMITE.
by Phillips, Jayne Anne
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375401954
- ISBN 13
- 9780375401954
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 2009.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. "Her first book in nine years. Lark & Termite is set during the 1950s in West Virginia and Korea. It is the 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." SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from Alice Munro, Tim O'Brien and Junot Diaz (who calls it "extraordinary . . . luminous . . . it is the best novel I've read all year.) Shortlisted for the National Book Award. Frontispiece. 254 pp.
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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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 89003
- Title
- LARK AND TERMITE.
- Author
- Phillips, Jayne Anne
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- New Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375401954
- ISBN 13
- 9780375401954
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 2009.
- Keywords
- west virginia setting,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Southern Writers and the South;
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