Hunger's Brides (Signed First Edition)

Paul Anderson

ISBN 10: 0786715413 / ISBN 13: 9780786715411

Edité par Carroll & Graf, New York, 2004

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New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. Publisher s original price intact on jacket flap ($30.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A pristine unread copy with no faults. Octavo, 1352 pages. Signed by the author Paul Anderson on the title page and dated September 2005, the month of publication. A sweeping historical novel interwoven with a contemporary narrative, centered on the life of 17th-century Mexican scholar and nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Paul Anderson is a Canadian writer and documentary filmmaker. Hunger s Brides is Anderson s debut and only novel to date, noted for its ambitious scope and literary ambition. Smoke free shop. Shipped in sturdy boxes with bubble-wrap. You cannot find a better copy of this massive novel.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Hunger's Brides (Signed First Edition)
• Éditeur: Carroll & Graf, New York
• Date de parution: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0786715413
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780786715411
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: New
• État de la jaquette: New
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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On a frigid winter's night, a man escapes from an apartment in which a young woman lies bleeding. In his hands he clutches a box he has found there. He is Donald Gregory, a once-respected college professor and serial adulterer, whose last affair has left his career in ruins. She is Beulah Limosneros, one of his students and for a brief time his lover. She had disappeared into Mexico two years earlier, following her obsession with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, who was born in 1648, entered a convent at age nineteen, and became the greatest poet of her time, only to die of plague in 1695. As a police investigation closes in around Gregory, he examines the box's contents, fearful of incriminating evidence Beulah may have against him—translated poems of Sor Juana, a travel journal, research notes on the Spanish conquest of the Americas and the Inquisition, diary entries concerning him, and a strange manuscript about Sor Juana. Based on the life of one of literature's most compelling figures, Paul Anderson's astonishing debut unveils a great poet's withdrawal from the world who at the height of her creative powers signs a vow of contrition in her own blood.