Year of Silence
by Madison Smartt Bell
ISBN: 0899194907
ISBN-13: 9780899194905
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
A woman named Marian has killed herself, and during the year that follows her friends give their version of events, in an overlapping multiple narrative that seeks to discover the truth behind an event that changed them all irrevocably.
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"The book is carefully constructed in the form of a triangle: the first and last chapters take place on the first anniversary of Marian's death: the middle chapter is the vortex, the only one written from Marian's point of view and the one in which she dies. The chapters in between work backward and forward in time to her suicide and through the year since her death....[Bell] has an uncanny understanding of the way many people must struggle to live." -- Roberta Silman
-- New York Times Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published date: 1987
Publisher's Notes
The death of Marian, a modestly successful illustrator in Manhattan, touches the lives of many people in surprising ways.
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The Year of Silence
Madison Smartt Bell
Ticknor & Fields. Used - Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! ( more information)
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The Year of Silence
Madison Smartt Bell
a good copy. gently used. All pages and cover clear of markings. Good dustjacket. Binding solid and tight. No creases. ( more information)
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The Year of Silence
Bell, Madison Smartt
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1987 Very Good in Good jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Light wear to dust jacket. Cover has slight bump to bottom spine end. Binding sound. Text bright, unmarked. 194 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. ( more information)
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The Year of Silence
Bell, Madison Smartt
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Ticknor & Fields, 1987. Hard Cover. Good/Good. First Edition. Ex-Library. ISBN:0899194907. Wear to edges of dust jacket.. ( more information)
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The Year of Silence
Bell, Madison Smartt
NY: Ticknor & Fields. VG+ in VG dj. 1987. 1st printing. Hardcover. Keywords: fiction, 0-899-19490-7. ( more information)
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The Year of Silence
Bell, Madison Smartt
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Ticknor & Fields, 1987 Nice copy; tight; NOT ex-library; clean text with no stamps or pen markings; DJ has very minimal shelf wear and small tear to the top of front; small marks from paper clip on title page and 1/2 title page; DJ in Mylar protective cover.. First Edition. Half-Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information)
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The Year of Silence
Bell, Madison Smartt
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Ticknor & Fields, 1987 Nice copy; tight; NOT ex-library; very clean, crisp pages with no stamps or pen markings; DJ has edge wear and bumping.. First Edition. Half-Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information)
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The Year of Silence
Bell, Madison Smartt
NYC: Ticknor & Fields. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1987. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0899194907 . #303. . ( more information)
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The Year of Silence
Bell, Madison Smartt
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Ticknor and Fields. 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Brief summary of content available upon request by e-mail. ( more information)
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Year of Silence
Bell, Madison Smartt
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Ticknor & Fields, 1987. Nice tight book, very little shelf wear, binding is tight, text is clean and unmarked. Excellent dust jacket with very light scuffing.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". ( more information)
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Year of Silence
Bell, Madison Smartt
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Ticknor & Fields, 1987. 194pp. Soiling, yellowing interior, DJ: scuffing, general wear, creasing. Reading Copy.. 1st. Hb. VG-/G. ( more information)
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The Year of Silence
Bell, Madison Smartt
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Ticknor & Fields, 1987. First Edition. Fine/Fine.. ISBN: 0899194907. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. NEW YORK N Y FICTION. ( more information)
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The Year of Silence
Bell, Madison Smartt
Boston, MA, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987 Jacket chipping at corners, creases, surface paint scratched off in several places, mylared for protection. Cover has light edgewear.. First Printing. Hard Cover. Good +/Good -. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information)
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The Year of Silence
BELL, MADISON SMARTT
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. SIGNED by Madison Smartt Bell. Small stain on top of text block near the spine. Wear at the extremeties of the dj. Very good book in very good dj. ( more information)
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Year of Silence, The
Bell, Madison Smartt
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1987. FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. Novel of a lady illustrator who dies - and the many people she had touched during her lifetime and in the course of her work. Hardcover with dust jacket, 194pp., d.j. shows very light edgewear. A nice copy.. ISBN: 0-89919-490-7. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Literature, Novels, Fiction. ( more information)
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The Year Of Silence
Bell, Madison Smartt
New York Ticknor & Fields 1987.. F/NrF slight edgewear pc dj. 1st edition.. F. Hardcover. ( more information)
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The Year of Silence
Bell, Madison Smartt
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987 slight edge wear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. ( more information)
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The Year of Silence
Bell, Madison Smartt
NY: Ticknor & Fields (1987). 1st ed., 1987. SIGNED by Bell. Fine in a fine DJ.. ISBN: 0899194907. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. ( more information)
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The Year of Silence
Bell, Madison Smartt
Ticknor and Fields, NY/ 1987-1st edition. Hardcover. VG+ in VG (light wear on edges) dj.. Very Good/Very Good. ( more information)
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Year of Silence
Bell, Madison Smartt
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Ticknor & Fields, 1987 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Very Good +. 9 Inches Tall. ( more information)
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The Year of Silence
Bell, Madison Smartt
Ticknor and Fields, NY/ 1987-1st ed. Hardcover. VG+ in VG (light wear on edges) dj.. Very Good/Very Good. ( more information)
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The Year of Silence
Bell, Madison Smartt
Ticknor and Fields, 1987 DJ worn on edges a nit. Blue cloth over charcoal boards. The events leading up to and those happening after a woman commits suicide.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. ( more information)
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THE YEAR OF SILENCE
Bell, Madison Smartt
New York: Ticknor & Field. NF/NF. 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover; 1st Printing. SIGNED by author on attached bookplate. Straight, clean book with previous owner's name, spine ends bumped; DJ crisp and bright but rubbed with a couple of small edge tears. Marian's been dead one year, by her own hand--did she mean to do it? ; 8 1/2" x 6"; 194 pages; Signed by Author . ( more information)
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The Year of Silence
Bell, Madison Smartt
New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1987 VG+ in VG (light wear on edges) dj.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Very Good. ( more information)
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The Year of Silence - A Novel
Bell, Madison Smartt
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1987. First edition. xii, 196pp. Light blue quarter-cloth, gray paper boards, silver gilt spine lettering, light gray endpapers. Dust jacket price 15.95. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to first blank page. Fifth Book. Difficult title to find with dust jacket in pristine condition because of flimsy, poor production. Book is very tight in the binding and appears unread. Dust jacket has the typical slight rubbing to extremeties, but is very crisp and fully intact. No remainder markings. "Madison Smartt Bell was born and raised near Nashville and attended Ensworth School and Montgomery Bell Academy before going to Princeton University, where he studied in the creative writing program, working with, among others, George Garrett and William Goyen. He has taught at a number of institutions including Johns Hopkins, the Iowa Writers Workshop, the Poetry Center at the Ninety-second Street YMHA, and Goucher College, where he was awarded the Chair of Distinguished Achievement in 1995. Among his other honors are the Lillian Smith Award (1989), Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and nominations as a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. He was named by Granta magazine as one of "the best American novelists under 40" in 1996. Bell is clearly a southern writer by inheritance and in his love for language, emphasis on storytelling, fondness for eccentric characters, and sense of the mysterious power of place. Although Bell has written both novels and stories set in the South, most of his work is placed elsewhere. Prolific, imaginative, brilliant, and compassionate, Bell has already created an impressive body of work by any standards and seems more than likely to become a major figure in contemporary American literature." - George Garrett. "New York [is] the locale for most of his early work. In "Zero db," the title story of Bell's first story collection, a sound man in a bar on 14th Street ends the story by advising, into his recording device, "Listen. Listen. Listen. We can never be too attentive to our world." The two novels that preceded the book of stories, 'The Washington Square Ensemble' and ' Waiting for the End of the World', showed that Bell had already taken this advice. These two New York novels put a twenty-something Tennessean on the New York map. His characters represented everything about New York that scares (or used to scare) so many away: junkies, dealers, prostitutes, anarchists. At a time when 'Bright Lights, Big City' was getting an abundance of attention, Bell was writing about a world that didn't come and go in a decade, a night world that told the rest of the story. His characters, he says, "are the guys that would have been mugging McInerney's characters as they stumbled out of the Odeon at three in the morning. His fourth novel, 'The Year of Silence', took an unusual tack: it ends in chapter six, the only chapter from the main character Marian's point of view. The five chapters before, and the five after, are narrated by ten very different people who all knew--or thought they knew--Marian before her overdose. " - Wyn Cooper. "At novel's open, martial arts expert Weberclearly distraught over the apparent suicide of the girlfriend who dumped himis rescued from the upper reaches of the Brooklyn Bridge by his roommate Larkin. What follows is the story of girlfriend Marian's disaffection and death, told mainly through the stories of others: Weber; his sparring partner, Sinclair; devoted Gwen and "hanger-on" Crystal; the panhandling dwarf Marian befriended; the police; even Larkin's missing brother. Each voice is distinctive, its purpose clear, so the repeated shift in viewpoint does not disconcert. Though we don't learn why Marian diedundoubtedly the pointthis is a deft, unsentimental look at the demimonde." - Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket/Near Fine. Illus. by Dust Jacket Design By Louise Noble; Dust Jacket Painting By Mark Andres. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information)
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The Year of Silence
Bell, Madison Smartt
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1987. A crisp and unread copy. Fine (a couple tiny fox marks on top edges) in a VG+ DJ (slightly rubbed). . First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. ( more information)
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THE YEAR OF SILENCE
Bell, Madison Smartt
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1987. First edition. hardcover. Fine/fine. Gray bds. with blue cloth spine in DJ. ( more information)
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The Year of Silence
Bell, Madison Smartt
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Ticknor & Fields, 1987. Author has been much-anthologized in Best American Short Stories and has been named one of America's twenty best young authors by Granta Magazine. A crisp, unread copy with the lightest of shop wear to top of DJ spine and a small nick to top of front cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/Near Fine. 8vo. ( more information)
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The Year of Silence
Bell, Madison Smartt
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987, 1987. Fine/Near Fine light Edgewear DJ. First Edition, First Printing. Inscribed By the Author. ISBN:0899194907. Additionally there is a post-it note from the author on the fron endpaper. Signed by Author(s). F. Hardcover. ( more information)
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