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Paradise - Second Printing Before Publication
by Morrison, Toni
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679433740
- ISBN 13
- 9780679433743
- Seller
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Baldwinsville, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. About Near Fine. See scans and description. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998 (Publication Date), 1997 (Copyright Date). The Second Printing Before Publication of Toni Morrison's 'Paradise'. Octavo, illustrated jacket, black cloth boards with gilt spine imprinting and gilt front cover monogram, 318 pp. + A Note About the Author + A Note About the Type. About Near Fine, due to a small pinch at the bottom edge of the front cover, also affecting jacket (see scans). Otherwise, no flaws, and this would be a Fine copy of the unusual 'Second Printing Before Publication' designation, which is relatively uncommon in novels, though there are a number of such examples of this title. 'Oprah's Book Club' sticker is on the jacket cover, and can be removed at buyer's request, though some folks like to leave those on. Your choice. The culminating title of Morrison's trilogy which began with 'Beloved' and 'Jazz'. Shipped in a new, protective box; no bags for this one. L15n
Synopsis
"Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damaged infants were born in one family. Daughters refused to get out of bed. Brides disappeared on their honeymoons. Two brothers shot each other on New Year's Day. Trips to Demby for VD shots common. And what went on at the Oven these days was not to be believed . . . The proof they had been collecting since the terrible discovery in the spring could not be denied: the one thing that connected all these catastrophes was in the Convent. And in the Convent were those women."In Paradise--her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature--Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain," assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void "Out There . . . where random and organized evil erupted when and where it chose." Richly imagined and elegantly composed, Paradise weaves a powerful mystery.From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Seller
- Singularity Rare & Fine
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 61241
- Title
- Paradise - Second Printing Before Publication
- Author
- Morrison, Toni
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 2nd Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0679433740
- ISBN 13
- 9780679433743
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Pages
- 318
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Popular, Historical
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern and Hypermodern Fiction;
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