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The Stone Carvers by Urquhart, Jane
- Bookseller: Sleepyside Books
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 001164
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Near Fine
- Jacket condition: Fine
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0771086873
- ISBN 13: 9780771086878
- Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
- Place: Toronto
- Date published: 2001
- Pages: 392
Description
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2001 Second printing of the Canadian edition of this novel from the author of "The Underpainter". Historical fiction about newly arrived Canadian immigrants. Near fine in a fine jacket.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
jacket : Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
Book summary
Klara is a seamstress in a small Ontario village, but when her older brother disappears and her lover dies in World War I, she travels to Paris and learns to carve stone like her grandfather did, so that she can participate in the carving of a war memorial.
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