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A Parchment of Leaves by House, Silas
- Bookseller: About Books Inc.
(US)
- Seller Inventory #: A0018035
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Jacket condition: Very Good
- Edition: 1st Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 1565123670
- ISBN 13: 9781565123670
- Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Place: Chapel Hill, NC
- Date published: 2002
- Pages: 288
- Size: 5.75 x 8.75 x 1 inches
- Weight: 1.1 pounds
Description
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2002. Hard cover. Very Good. Very good in very good dust jacket. very light edgewear to DJ.
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
Book summary
Saul falls passionately in love with a Cherokee girl named Vine, but after they marry and Saul takes a job as a logger that requires him to be away from home, his brother Aaron wants to take his place. When Vine declines his attentions, Aaron tries to rape her, and she kills him in self-defense, a secret act that will have consequences far beyond her expectations. The novel is set during the World War I era in the mountains of Kentucky.
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