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In May of 1932, at Farrells' Boarding House in the small mountain resort of Christina, a handsome stranger presents his card: "Jay Skikey, Professor of Aesthetics and Elocution." For Morris and Edna Farrell, brother and sister, and for Justus Bechner, their only boarder, this new arrival represents a magic long absent from their lives, or never encountered to begin with. Only Callan McAlpern, the town mortician, recognizes Skikey for what he is: a man bearing Hell in his wake.
From the battlefields of World War I to the citadel of Al Capone's gangster empire, the Professor of Aesthetics reveals the tortured pasts of Edna, of Morris, of Jay Skikey himself: secrets of violence, betrayal, lost passion and flickering hope. In his brooding and allusive novel of almost Jacobean intensity, Christopher T. Leland confronts the power of evil and the immanence of death, and love's final, ironic capacity to transcend them.
Christopher T. Leland is Professor of English at Wayne State University.
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Librería: R Bookmark, Youngtown, AZ, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Used - Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Dust jacket has some shelf wear, Stated First Edition. Nº de ref. del artículo: 128790
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Librería: Ilium Books, Somerville, MA, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Fine. First Edition. MA: Zoland Books, (1994). 1st Edition. 151 p. Hardbound with Dust Jacket. Very slight edgewear to book and DJ. Still a bright and clean copy. The author's fourth book. Near Fine/Near Fine. Nº de ref. del artículo: 272
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Librería: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Zooland Books, 1994. First printing. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Fine in a fine a dust jacket which is slightly rubbed. An unread tight copy. Signed by Author(s). Nº de ref. del artículo: 1828
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Librería: Gian Luigi Fine Books, Albany, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: VG. Estado de la sobrecubierta: VG. FIRST EDIITON. Nº de ref. del artículo: 007767
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Librería: Prestonshire Books, IOBA, Appleton, WI, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Inscribed on half title page, "for Don and Carol Ann-- a dark little tale about grace, best love". Also Signed on title page under his name. Book in Mint Condition. Dust jacket in good condition with moderate shelf wear and small tear to bottom spine and back bottom cover. Please see our feedback! L. Nº de ref. del artículo: 005354
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