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As new condition black boards with gold front cover decoration and gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Kaylie Jones; Author Dedication; Acknowledgments; and Preliminary Page Quote. Signed, inscribed, and dated (April 2000) by the author with black pen on the full title page. "Kaylie Jones poetically, vividly, and skillfully creates a bell jar of a stiflingly rich world and a complicated heroine who smashes her way out. Jones is knowing about life, love, and the search for one's identity. She certainly has found her own." -- Barbara Goldsmith, author. "Kaylie Jones's novels are a pure joy to read, and Celeste Ascending is splendid!" -- Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump. "Celeste Ascending is a luminous portrait of a young woman confronted by contradictions: the chasm between longing and contentment, the material sickness of American culture versus the ascetic life of the artist, and the hard-fought scramble toward grace that necessitates facing the biggest contradiction of all, who we are and were versus who we are becoming and want to be." -- Robin Hemley, author of The Last Studebaker. "Celeste's journey is irresistible and involving from the first page. She is both familiar and exceptionally brave -- and the grandmother is magnifique!" -- Alice Elliott Dark, author. "Celeste Ascending teaches us all of the importance of telling ourselves the truth if we're ever to find our souls. In Celeste's journey to come to terms with her family, her men, her drinking, and her life, she shows us the perils of self deception and the rewards of bravery that start her on the road to herself. I was cheering for her all the way." -- Barbara Esstman, author. "Celeste, at a less-than-tender age, finds herself engaged, living in a penthouse apartment, and jetting off on exotic trips. But after her initial rapture with Alex, Celeste discoveres that he's not perfect, and she's not perfect. Alex makes her angry, he often seems to care more about his job than her, and he's prone to bouts of rage. And Celeste is drinking too much. As Celeste begins to question her relationship and herself, she is haunted by painful memories of her past in well-mannered, blue-blood Connecticut. The people she loved most have all vanished -- her beautiful French mother, who died young; her high school best friend, Sally, who suffered from severe depression; her first love, Nathan, who developed an insatialble case of wanderelust. Even in adulthood, Celeste's closest friends seem to abandon her, and she still, ten years later, cannot let go of her lingering passion for Nathan, who is the opposite of Alex in ever way. Celeste comes to realize that her life is full of lies, and that she must take responsibility for the choices she has made. In a bold refusal to compromise, she challenges her fiance, her family, and the very society in which she's steeped." -- from the inner front jacket flap. N° de ref. del artículo 007078
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Título: Celeste Ascending: A Novel [SIGNED FIRST ...
Editorial: HarperCollinsPublishers, New York
Año de publicación: 2000
Encuadernación: Hardcover
Ilustrador: Field, Nancy (book design); Fulbrook, John (jacket design); Erler, Glen (jacket photograph); Foley, John (author photograh)
Condición: As New
Condición de la sobrecubierta: As New
Ejemplar firmado: Signed by Author(s)
Edición: 1st Edition
