Skip to content

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel [SIGNED LIMITED in slipcase]

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel [SIGNED LIMITED in slipcase]

Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Click for full-size.

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel [SIGNED LIMITED in slipcase]

by Bender, Aimee

  • Used
  • as new
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
  • first
Condition
As New/As New
ISBN 10
0385501129
ISBN 13
9780385501125
Seller
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
Item Price
$60.00
Or just $54.00 with a
Bibliophiles Club Membership
$6.00 Shipping to USA
Standard delivery: 1 to 10 days

More Shipping Options

Payment Methods Accepted

  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Discover
  • PayPal

About This Item

New York: Doubleday, 2010. Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED. Limited Powell's IndieSpensable edition. Tan and light blue paper covered boards, lettered in silver foil, in color illus. dust jacket, lemon cloth slipcase lettered/illus. in teal. New/as issued. 292 pp. 1st ptg., complete number line. Signed by author on main title, no inscription or date..

Synopsis

The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents' attention, bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the cake. She discovers this gift to her horror, for her mother--her cheerful, good-with-crafts, can-do mother--tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes a peril and a threat to Rose. The curse her gift has bestowed is the secret knowledge all families keep hidden--her mother's life outside the home, her father's detachment, her brother's clash with the world. Yet as Rose grows up she learns to harness her gift and becomes aware that there are secrets even her taste buds cannot discern. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake is a luminous tale about the enormous difficulty of loving someone fully when you know too much about them. It is heartbreaking and funny, wise and sad, and confirms Aimee Bender's place as "a writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of language" (San Francisco Chronicle). From the Hardcover edition.

Reviews

(Log in or Create an Account first!)

You’re rating the book as a work, not the seller or the specific copy you purchased!

Details

Bookseller
Saucony Book Shop US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
048386
Title
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel [SIGNED LIMITED in slipcase]
Author
Bender, Aimee
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
New As New
Jacket Condition
As New
Edition
1st Edition
ISBN 10
0385501129
ISBN 13
9780385501125
Publisher
Doubleday
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2010
Size
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Terms of Sale

Saucony Book Shop

Terms of Sale: All orders are processed on a first-come, first-served basis. Full refund on any misrepresented item(s) within 30 days of purchase date. Returned books must arrive in the same condition as they were sent. We use standard ABAA grading and terminology, and we will gladly respond to pre-purchase queries. Payment: Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, check, money order, cash. Happy hunting!

About the Seller

Saucony Book Shop

Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Biblio member since 2005
Kutztown, Pennsylvania

About Saucony Book Shop

The Saucony Book Shop, located in the heart of scenic rural Berks County, epicenter of Pennsylvania German folk culture (our shop specialty), offers a full range of gently used, rare, and antiquarian books, with many volumes of scholarly merit and an unabashed emphasis on the quaint, the curious, and the utterly obscure. We make no attempt to be a general-service book shop. Our inventory is highly selective, individually chosen from among the hundreds of thousands of books to which we have access annually at auctions, library and estate sales, and through individual scouts and vendors. We do not handle material that does not meet our expectations in terms of condition or interest to our specialized, idiosyncratic customers. Despite maintaining a browsing inventory of more than 15,000 volumes, we have minimized our carbon footprint by maintaining our entire operation in a cozy ca. 1890 barn and lean-to adjacent to an historic creamery in rural Maxatawny Township. Our shop is available for browsing by appointment and occasionally, in temperate weather, by chance, so email or call ahead to peruse the eclectic selection gracing our shelves, or ask our ferociously over-read staff for recommendations. Selling antiquarian books of merit since 1981. Full search and appraisal services; always keenly interested in purchasing quality used books, whether by the piece or by the bushel. Thanks for reading about us! Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

Glossary

Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Number Line
A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...

This Book’s Categories

tracking-