Dangerous Skies

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR on the title page. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($17.00). NO chips. NO tears. Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. NOT a remainder. Pages are creamy white, crisp and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Bound in the original beige boards, lettered in black. From the dust jacket: "DANGEROUS SKIES is the story of a friendship that takes root among the grasses and mud flats of the back creeks of the Chesapeake Bay. Buck Smith is descended from the settlers who came from England in the 1700s to farm Virginia's Eastern Shore, Tunes Smith from the slaves who were brought from Africa to work the Smith farm. They were raised together from infancy; their friendship is as true and constant as the tides. But as they have grown older, the adults around them have become more watchful, and even though Buck resists the inevitable tug of change in their lives, some changes, like the seasons, cannot be stopped. Then the sudden and horrifying events of a spring afternoon change their world forever. Told with unsparing honesty and affection, this gripping tale of betrayal will break the listener's heart as it confronts issues of racism and hypocrisy that have plagued our country throughout its history." . INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Lee, Paul (jacket art). 8vo. (vi), 232pp.