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Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, Inc., 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. Susan Quasha (Jacket Design). 152 pp. Solidly bound copy with light signs of use. Small water mark on center page end. Otherwise, flawless copy. Synopsis: Writing from America to her sister in Germany, the protagonist of this shattering first novel reconstructs the life of her parents--in the author's words, "just those 'ordinary people' who helped Hitler rise." Unflinching in her appraisal, she imagines how her father's latent anti-Semitism was triggered by his wife's affair with a Jew, who was later sent to a concentration camp. The tone darkens as the narrator realizes that she and her sisters are living out variants of their mother's sexual model. "Wonderfully, relentlessly absorbing, HANKY's several overlapping tales leave one marvelling at the beauty, economy and humor with which Waldrop interweaves…
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- Title Hanky of Pippin's Daughter
- Author Rosmarie Waldrop
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 150
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Barrytown Limited, Barrytown, NY
- Date 1986
- ISBN 9780882680385 / 0882680382
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 86005919
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.54
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