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A FIRST EDITION AND FIRST PRINTING SIGNED BY AUTHOR. BOOK CONDITION: FINE, NAVY BOARDS WITH BLACK CLOTH SPINE WITH GOLD LETTERING. FRONT BOARD IMPRESSED WITH AUTHOR'S NAME.BRIGHT RED ENDPAGES FRONT ENDPAGE HAS A SLIGHT DARKER RECTANGULAREA,BARELY NOTICEABLE. 628 BRIGHT,CRISP PAGES INCLUDE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS,NOTE TO THE READER, PROLOGUE AND EPILOGUE.TITLE PAGE IS SIGNED AND INSCRIBED, "TO MARY ELLEN CARTER, FOR THE LOVE OF BOOKS, PAT CONROY". DUST JACKET: VERY FINE, BRIGHT COLORS, NO TEARS OR CHIPPING . ARCHIVAL PROTECTED. A STUNNING COPY OF THE AUTHORS FOURTH NOVEL. THE FIRST PRINTING OF 750,000 COPIES SOLD OUT IMMEDIATELY. A STORY RICH WITH PRECISE PROSE TOLD THRU THE CHARACTER OF JACK MCCALL. CONROY,A MASTERFUL STORYTELLER, WRITES OF LONG GENERATIONAL DYSFUNCTION. CHILDHOOD MEMORIES THAT CONTINUE TO HAUNT AND TERRORIZE HIM. HIS FAMILY IS CHAOTIC, HATEFUL,DISRUPTIVE. THE DISFUNCTION NEVER GOES AWAY SO JACK MOVES WITH HIS YOUNG DAUGHTER TO ESCAPE IN HOPES OF HEALING FROM THE TRAUMA OF HIS WIFE'S SUICIDE. JACK MCCALL SEEKS PEACE AND HAPINESS AS AN ADULT AND PARENT,NOT UNLIKE THE AUTHOR'S OWN LIFE.HE EXPLORES THE PAINFUL REALITIES OF THE VIETNAM WAR,THE HOLOCAUST AND THE GENERATIONAL EFFECTS OF SOCIAL AND RACIAL INJUSTICE. ALTHOUGH WRITTEN AS FICTION, THERE ARE CLOSE PARALLELS TO THE AUTHOR'S OWN LIFE. PAT CONROY (1945-2016) AWARD WINNING NOVELIST OF THE 20TH CENTURY. A BEAUTIFUL COPY SIGNED BY PAT CONROY. A FIRST EDITION AND FIRST PRINTING. GIFTWORTHY. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-1694908305255

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