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Such Sweet Thunder
by Carter, Vincent O
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket as Issued
- Seller
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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About This Item
South Royalton, Vermont, USA: Steerforth Press, 2003. BG3 - A first edition advance reading copy (ARC)/uncorrected proof book in very good+ condition with no dust jacket as issued (trade paperback). An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with only very, very minor overall shelf wear. A novel originally written in 1963 but not previously published. It is set in Kansas City in the years just before and during World War II. The main character is an African-American boy and his experiences paint a picture of an era and place marred by racial segregation and relentless, daily injustices. It is also about a vibrant, burgeoning, and widely influential culture which contains a fierce feeling for family and community. This is the author's first novel. 537p. . Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reading Copy (ARC).
Synopsis
Vincent O. Carter was born in Kansas City in 1924. At seventeen he was drafted into the U.S. Army. He landed on a Normandy beachhead and took part in the drive toward Paris. Back in the United States, he took advantage of the G.I. Bill, earning a college degree from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and spending a graduate year at Wayne State in Detroit. Eventually he returned to Europe, spending time in Paris, Munich, and Amsterdam before settling in Bern, where he spent the rest of his life in a sort of self-imposed exile. He died there in 1983.
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- Seller
- Bookmarc's
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- Seller's Inventory #
- SCW12721
- Title
- Such Sweet Thunder
- Author
- Carter, Vincent O
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Publisher
- Steerforth Press
- Place of Publication
- South Royalton, Vermont, USA
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Literary Novel Kansas City Race Relations Racism Jim Crow Second World War World War Two World War II 1939 1945 Advance Reading Copy ARC Uncorrected Proof African American Ficiton African-American Fiction Afro Amer
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature / African-American Literature; Fiction / Author's First Novel; Fiction / Modern Fiction Firsts;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Shelf Wear
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
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