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The Mercy Seat
by Askew, Rilla
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0140265155
- ISBN 13
- 9780140265156
- Seller
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Iowa City, Iowa, United States
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About This Item
Viking, 1997. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good in Good dust jacket.
Synopsis
Few first novels garner the kind of powerful praise awarded this epic story that takes place on the dusty, remorseless Oklahoma frontier, where two brothers are deadlocked in a furious rivalry. Fayette is an enterprising schemer hoping to cash in on his brother's talents as a gunsmith. John, determined not to repeat the crime that forced both families to flee their Kentucky homes, doggedly follows his tenacious brother west, while he watches his own family disintegrate. Wondrously told through the wary eyes of John's ten-year-old daughter, Mattie, whose gift of premonition proves to be both a blessing and a curse, The Mercy Seat resounds with the rhythms of the Old Testament even as it explores the mysteries of the Native American spirit world. Sharing Faulkner's understanding of the inescapable pull of family and history, and Cormac McCarthy's appreciation of the stark beauty of the American wilderness, Rilla Askew imbues this momentous work with her tremendous energy and emotional range. It is an extraordinary novel from a prodigious new talent. Strange Business , a collection of linked stories that won the 1993 Oklahoma Book Award, is available from Penguin.
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- Bookseller
- The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00082229
- Title
- The Mercy Seat
- Author
- Askew, Rilla
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140265155
- ISBN 13
- 9780140265156
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
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- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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