The Hard Blue Sky

Shirley Ann Grau

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958

Beschreibung

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. NF/VG-. Stated First Edition. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($5.00) with chipping to the spine and corners and lightly sunned spine (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 466 pages. 6 x 8½" tall. West of New Orleans among a few small Gulf islands lies the Isle aux Chiens, a tiny, impoverished strip of land burdened by intolerable heat and roaming packs of wild dogs. Here a handful of Creole families eke out a meager existence by fishing the Gulf waters. Such is the fate of Al Landry and his seventeen-year-old daughter, Annie. The Hard Blue Sky is Grau?s debut novel, establishing her as a chronicler of bayou life and the complexities of the Deep South?s most impoverished corners. Winner of the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for her novel ?The Keepers of the House.?. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 10489

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Hard Blue Sky

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf

Erscheinungsdatum: 1958

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good

Auflage: 1st Edition