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Dillard, Annie : The Living

HarperCollins, New York, 1992

Signed by the author in black ink on title page. Original publisher's turquoise paper-covered boards backed with brown cloth in a pictorial dust wrapper. Orange foil lettering on book spine. Wrap-around black-and-white photograph of pioneer family in the woods on dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in a paper-backed Brodart sleeve. 6 1/2" x 9 3/4." 397 pages, complete. Dust wrapper and pages and covers of the book are virtually pristine and intact. Binding is tight. Dust wrapper not price-clipped. No remainder marks. A Fine book in a Fine dust wrapper. Excerpt from front and back flaps: "The Living is a vivid, populous, old-fashioned novel about the Pacific Northwest frontier. ... Here is the intimate, murderous tale of three men. Clare Fishburn believes that greatness lies in store for him. John Ireland Sharp, an educated orphan, abandons hope when he sees socialists expel the Chinese workers from the region. Beal Obenchain, who lives in a cedar stump, threatens Clare Fishburn's life. Durable, open-hearted women live on these shores, among them Minta Honer, of Baltimore, who raises hops and endures every misfortune, and Ada Tawes, who sees the region's hopes rise and fall. Lummi and Nooksack Indian people fish and farm; explorers climb into the Cascade Mountains to survey. Men struggle to clear the forests; hermits pay their debts in sockeye salmon; miners track gold-bearing streams. A killer lashes a Chinese worker to a wharf piling at low tide. Settlers launch a boat and sing by a beach fire. People give birth, drown, burn, inherit rich legacies, and commit expensive larcenies. On Madrone Island the beauty of sky and sea gives the illusion of peace. In the upriver settlement of Goshen, the dark trees come down and children grow up on farms spread under the light. Settlers pour into Whatcom, the harbor town, to catch the boom the railroads bring. All this takes place a hundred years ago, when these vital, ruddy men and women were 'the living.'" Annie Dillard (b. 1945) is an American author. She has written a number of works including novels, poetry, essays, prose, and works of nonfiction. She won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for her book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974).. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fine

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