Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: William Morrow & Co, 1998. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A superb like new first print copy in fine condition in an unclipped and fine dustjacket--never opened except for the signature and protected now in a mylar jacket cover. A highly praised novel by the author of "Sister". Beautiful wraparound dustjacket cover. The story of a midwestern town in Wisconsin "haunted" by an angel. A very collectible copy.

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In April 1991, in a little Wisconsin town about a hundred miles southwest of the town where I grew up, a misfit boy was kidnapped by a group of high school kids who, later, would testify they'd merely meant to frighten him, to drive him around for a while. Somehow they ended up at the rive, whooping and hollering on a two-lane bridge. Somehow the boy was shoved, he jumped, he slipped--acounts vary--into the icy water. The kids told police they never heard a splash; one reported seeing a brilliant flash of light. (Several people in the area witnessed a similar light, while others recalled hearing something "kind of like thunder.") All night, volunteers walked the river's edge, but it was dawn before the body was found in a barn a good mile from the bridge...The owner of the barn had been the one to discover the body, and she said the boy's cheeks were rosy, his skin warm to the touch. A sweet smell hung in the air. "It was," she said "as if he were just sleeping." And then she told police she believed an angel had carried him there.For years, it had been said that an angel lived in the river. Residents flipped coins into the water for luck, and a few claimed they had seen the angel, or known someone who'd seen it. The historical society downtown had a farmwife's journal, dated 1898, in which a woman described how an angel had rescued her family from a flood. Now, as the story of the boy's death spread, more people came forward with accounts of strange things that had happened on that night. Dogs had barked without ceasing till dawn; livestock broke free of padlocked barns. Someone's child crayoned a bridge and, above it, a wide-winged tapioca angel.A miracle? A hoax? Or something in between? With acute insight and great compassion, A. Manette Ansay captures the inner life of a town and its residents struggling to forge a new identity in the face of a rapidly changing world.

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Bookseller: Classic First Editions (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: cfe12676
Title: River Angel (Signed 1st Printing)
Author: A. Manette Ansay
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First American Edition 1st Printing
ISBN 10: 0688152430
ISBN 13: 9780688152437
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Place of Publication: Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1998
Pages: 243
Keywords: FICTION
Bookseller catalogs: Signed First Printings;

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