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The Way the Crow Flies [SIGNED COPY, FIRST AMERICAN PRINTING]
by MacDonald, Ann-Marie
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0060578955
- ISBN 13
- 9780060578954
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New York, NY: Harper, 2003. First American edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Very good in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page (signature only). 1st AMERICAN edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Dust jacket essentially as new. Book has a mild roll to the heel of the spine and mild moisture exposure to the pageblock. 'Autographed copy' sticker. A novel shortlisted for the Giller Prize by the Commonwealth Writers' Prize-, Governor General's Award-, Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award-, and Canadian Authors Association Award-winning author of 'Fall on Your Knees' and 'Adult Onset'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
Synopsis
Eight-year-old Madeline McCarthy loves her new home in the quiet air force base near the Canadian-American border. But when a local murder intersects with global forces Madeline learns that no one -- even her parents -- are as they seem… a lesson she can only begin to understand 20 years later when she resolves to find the truth, and the killer.In her highly anticipated new novel, Ann-Marie MacDonald takes us back to a postwar world. For Madeleine McCarthy, high-spirited and eight years old, her family's posting to a quiet air force base near the Canadian-American border is at first welcome, secure as she is in the love of her family and unaware that her father, Jack, is caught up in his own web of secrets. The early sixties, a time of optimism infused with the excitement of the space race and overshadowed by the menace of the Cold War, is filtered through the rich imagination of a child as Madeleine draws us into her world.But the base is host to some intriguing inhabitants, including the unconventional Froehlich family, and the odd Mr. March, whose power over the children is a secret burden that they carry. Then tragedy strikes, and a very local murder intersects with global forces, binding the participants for life. As the tension in the McCarthys' household builds, Jack must decide where his loyalties lie, and Madeleine learns about the ambiguity of human morality -- a lesson that will become clear only when the quest for the truth, and the killer, is renewed twenty years later.The Way the Crow Flies is a novel that is as compelling as it is rich. With her unerring eye for the whimsical, the absurd, and the quintessentially human, Ann-Marie MacDonald stunningly evokes the pain, confusion, and humor of childhood in a perilous adult world. At once a loving portrayal and indictment of an era, The Way the Crow Flies is a work of great heart and soaring intelligence.
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- Title
- The Way the Crow Flies [SIGNED COPY, FIRST AMERICAN PRINTING]
- Author
- MacDonald, Ann-Marie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0060578955
- ISBN 13
- 9780060578954
- Publisher
- Harper
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2003
- Pages
- 736
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