The Slave Dancer (Signed by the Author!)

Fox, Paula

ISBN 10: 0878880623 / ISBN 13: 9780878880621

Edité par Bradbury Pr, 1974

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Hardcover. First Edition/Third Printing. Very Good condition in Very Good unclipped dust jacket ("1974 winner" written in ink on inside front board). INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: "For Greg Choncaff, From Pamela Fox" on first blank fly leaf. Winner of 1974 Newbery Medal. N° de réf. du vendeur LM752012

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Titre : The Slave Dancer (Signed by the Author!)

Éditeur : Bradbury Pr

Date d'édition : 1974

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : Very Good

Etat de la jaquette : Very Good

Signé : Inscribed by Author(s)

Edition : 1st Edition

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Synopsis :

Book by Fox Paula

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An Excerpt from The Slave Dancer

        I heard one piercing scream. My teeth began to chatter.

        Then a very small brown face rose above the rail as though it had flown
        up from the sea. It continued to rise slowly until its brown bare chest
        was visible. Then I saw dark hands around its waist. The hands lifted,
        the little girl's legs flew out, and I saw the head of the young man who
        had been carrying her.

        For a second, she sat on the deck, looking all around her, her eyes huge
        with amazement, then she crawled and jumped toward the rail but was forced
        back by the forward propulsion of the man who tottered over the rail,
        unable, it seemed, to bring his body any further. The child hugged the
        young man's neck frantically and buried her face in his hair. At that
        moment, Nicholas Spark bent his thin length and gripped the man's back
        as though he were gathering up cloth, and yanked him altogether over,
        the chains around his ankles striking the deck with a violent clanging.
        The clanging never ceased as one after another the captives struggled
        over the rail and were dropped or dragged onto the deck. How long did
        it all take? I'll never know. None of us moved.

        
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