butler robert olen nemeroy howard (4 resultados)

Condición: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good to Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good to Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Books is unread, top front corner is bumped, There are two DJ's, one is Near Fine the other Very good.

Hard Cover. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Green boards quarterbound in blue cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. 256pps. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. No apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has the very lightest of rubbing to the extremities; the original price (12.95) is intact. ".The 'Eden' in Pulitzer Prize-winning Robert Olen Butler's astonishing first novel is a room. A man and woman have lived in this room for almost five years, in love, and in a secrecy forced upon them by a dangerous past: Clifford Wilkes is a deserter, in fact the last American Army deserter left in Saigon; Lanh is an extradordinary woman whose love is enabling her slowly to heal from the bitter life of prostitution to which she had been subjected by foreign troops. The scars of the past born by both, the sensitivity of their understanding, their need for each other in an unremitting atmosphere of crisis, have sealed them in a pssion of love now under daily threat. The life they make together is so truly described that the reader lives with them daily in its strangeness and intimacy, and in intensifying anxity as the last moment for escape in America approaches. They desperate race through the alleys of the city, with the engines of the choppers -- their final hope -- hammering away in the distance, their arrival at the gates in front of freedom, and finally the rise of flight into the sky -- this suspensful sequence of action comprise one of the most powerful passages of writing in any novel of war in our time." Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books.

First Edition, First Printing. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Green boards quarterbound in blue cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. 256pp. A flawless collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has the very lightest of rubbing to the extremities; no chips, soiling, or tears. The original price is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. Butler's first novel. ".The 'Eden' in Pulitzer Prize-winning Robert Olen Butler's astonishing first novel is a room. A man and woman have lived in this room for almost five years, in love, and in a secrecy forced upon them by a dangerous past: Clifford Wilkes is a deserter, in fact the last American Army deserter left in Saigon; Lanh is an extradordinary woman whose love is enabling her slowly to heal from the bitter life of prostitution to which she had been subjected by foreign troops. The scars of the past born by both, the sensitivity of their understanding, their need for each other in an unremitting atmosphere of crisis, have sealed them in a pssion of love now under daily threat. The life they make together is so truly described that the reader lives with them daily in its strangeness and intimacy, and in intensifying anxity as the last moment for escape in America approaches. They desperate race through the alleys of the city, with the engines of the choppers -- their final hope -- hammering away in the distance, their arrival at the gates in front of freedom, and finally the rise of flight into the sky -- this suspensful sequence of action comprise one of the most powerful passages of writing in any novel of war in our time." Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Money back guarantee. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. To assist with your decision, photos can be emailed upon request. SIGNED by the Author.