New York: Knopf, 1987. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Allende's second novel is set in an un-named Latin American country controlled by a military dictatorship. The book features two people -- Irene, an upper class woman, naive but well-intentioned, a reporter for a women's magazine, and Francisco, son of Spanish exiles, a photographer and clandestine worker in the resistance. On a routine assignment the pair uncover a hideous crime, the revelation of which will challenge and provoke the regime's official terrorism. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden, with a publisher's postcard laid-in. A remainder mark on the top edge of the text, corners of both boards slightly bumped, o/w clean, unmarked, tight and square. The price-clipped dustjacket shows a moderate amount of surface and edgewear, especially at the spine ends but no major tears, chipping or creasing.

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Born in Peru, Isabel Allende is Chilean. She was a journalist for many years and began to write fiction in 1981. The result was the worldwide bestseller The House of the Spirits, which was followed two years later by the equally successful Of Love and Shadows . Long a resident of Caracas, she now makes her home in San Rafael, California, where she is completing a new book. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Bookseller: H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 004515
Title: OF LOVE AND SHADOWS
Author: Allende, Isabel
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Printing, First U.S. Edition.
ISBN 10: 0394549627
ISBN 13: 9780394549620
Publisher: Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1987
Keywords: MODERN NOVEL, FIRST EDITION, SOUTH AMERICA, DICTATORSHIP, TERROR,
Bookseller catalogs: Modern Novel; Crime; Fine Literature;

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