Jarrett's Jade [VINTAGE 1959]

Derby, Frank

Verlag: The Dial Press, New York, 1959

Beschreibung

Near fine condition beige boards with black spine lettering contained in a very good condition color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication and Prologue. Upper dust jacket spine edge chipped and scattered jacket rubbing and small chips. All pages are in fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is exceedingly tight and square (see photographs). Book Club Edition. "The story of the founding of a great Southern dynasty. James Jarrett arrived in Savannah in 1736, clad in kilt and tartan, the first of the Georgia Jarretts, tall, broad-shouldered and lean as a broadax, with a face less villainous than exciting. James Jarrett looked like what he was - a Highland aristocrat - Laird of Clan Jarrett. Part devil, part angel, he came to Georgia to take the wife who would help him found a New World Clan Jarrett, a great Southern dynasty. He knew what he wanted and he fought for it with a skill and daring and courage that was almost madness. Many women loved James Jarrett. There was Maebelle, a pretty Scottish girl of seventeen whose love led her to disgrace. There was Sue Merrick, an English aristocrat, who thought James a monster, who hated and loathed him - and who was powerless before her love for him. And in Savannah, there was Mary Knox, fragile and fair, whose sweet face was like a cry in the bitter blackness of James's heart and whose brutish brothers swore eternal vengeance on James. And there was Simone Duclos, whom James bought at a slave auction, who had the trimmed down fineness of a thoroughbred and suffered despair and social ostracism to be near him. Two sons bore James Jarrett's proud name, but it was the youngest, Jarl, whose life was influenced by the dark secrets hidden behind the silent facades of James Jarrett's Georgian mansion. It was Jarl who, as 1776 and the War for Independence drew near, at last learned to hate his own father. Once again, in Jarrett's Jade, Frank Yerby brings to life the color and atmosphere of the American South in the glorious days of its beginning. This is a story charged with blood and fire, with white hot passions and animosities, with strife and warfare and the clash of army against army, family against family and father against son." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 007954

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Jarrett's Jade [VINTAGE 1959]

Verlag: The Dial Press, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1959

Einband: Hardcover

Illustrator: Paul, Julian (jacket design)

Zustand: Near Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

Auflage: Book Club Edition