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NORA WEBSTER: A Novel
by Toibin, Colm
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/As New
- ISBN 10
- 1439138338
- ISBN 13
- 9781439138335
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Scribner, 2014. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Fine/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black fountain ink.Set in Wexford, Ireland, Colm Toibin's magnificent seventh novel introduces the formidable, memorable, and deeply moving NORA WEBSTEr. Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be sucked back into it. Wounded, selfish, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her young sons, who have lost their father. Yet she has moments of stunning insight and empathy, and when she begins to sing again, after decades, she finds solace, engagement, a haven - herself. Autho alsor of THE MASTER, MOTHERS AND SONS, BROOKLYN, THE EMPTY FAMILY, THE TESTMAENT OF MARY,and HOUSE OF NAMES, among others..As new,, unread, first edition, first printing , in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. *Packed carefully and shipped in a box to insure arrival in fine condition. [Not remainder-marked or price-clipped] OFC 2F
Synopsis
COLM TOIBIN is the award-winning author of seven previous internationally acclaimed novels, including the Booker finalist The Blackwater Lightship ; The Master , winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and Le Prix du meilleur livre etranger, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction; Brooklyn , winner of the Costa Novel Award, and finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and soon to be a major motion picture; and The Testament of Mary , a finalist for the Man Booker Prize. His two acclaimed short story collections are The Empty Family and Mothers and Sons . He mainly lives in Dublin, Ireland..
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- Bookseller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022832
- Title
- NORA WEBSTER: A Novel
- Author
- Toibin, Colm
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1439138338
- ISBN 13
- 9781439138335
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2014
- Pages
- 384
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Product_type
- 2
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