Kingsolver The Lacuna

Kingsolver, Barbara. THE LACUNA Scarce Signed Copy of The First Hardcover Edition. New York City, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2009.
Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 510 pages. As New in As New Dust Jacket. The author's fourth novel. One of the most important literary events of the year 2009, it is destined to be a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly copies signed on the publisher's bookplate. Presents Barbara Kingsolver's "most mature and ambitious novel. It's also her most demanding. Spanning three decades, the story comes to us as a collection of diary entries and memoir, punctuated by archivist's notes, newspaper articles, letters, book reviews, and congressional transcripts involving some of the 20th century's most radical figures" (The Washington Post). The eponymous protagonist, Harrison Shepherd, is presented retrospectively through this formal approach, and as such is one of the most memorable and moving characters in contemporary literature, a "permanent foreigner, not at home in the United States or Mexico, quickly develops an outsider's detached perspective, tinged with loneliness". He is the ultimate lacuna, a missing text whose life is suggested by the world he describes. "The most important part of the story is the piece of it you don't know" (Barbara Kingsolver). An absolute "must-have" title for Barbara Kingsolver collectors. <b><i>This copy is prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Barbara Kingsolver. It is signed directly on the page, not on a tipped-in page or a bookplate as most copies available online are. Kingsolver did not do a full-fledged national tour, confining her signings to a few appearances. This is one of very few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition still available online and has no flaws, a pristine beauty. A very scarce signed copy thus. </b></i> One of the greatest living American writers. A flawless copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER BARBARA KINGSOLVER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0060852577. Signed by Author.

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Barbara Kingsolver: The Lacuna: A Novel, ISBN: 0060852577

In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover.... Format: Hardcover

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Barbara Kingsolver: The Lacuna, Penguin Books India

New The Lacuna is the story of a man's search for safety in the grinding jaws of two nations, at a moment when the entire world seemed bent on reinventing itself at any cost. Born in the US, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is mostly a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salome. From a coastal island jungle to the unpaved neighbourhoods of 1930s Mexico City, through a disastrous stint at a military school in Virginia and back again, his fortunes never steady as Salome finds her rich men-friends always on the losing side of the Mexican Revolution. Sometimes she gives her son cigarettes instead of supper. He aims for invisibility, observing his world and recording everything with a peculiar selfless irony in his notebooks. Life is whatever he learns from servants putting him to work in the kitchen, errands he runs in the streets, and one fateful day, by mixing plaster for famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. Making himself useful in the household of the muralist, his wife Frida Kahlo, and exiled Bolshevik leader Lev Trotsky, young Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution, and the howling gossip and reportage that dictate public opinion. A violent upheaval sends him north to a nation newly caught up in the internationalist goodwill of World War II. In the mountain city of Asheville, North Carolina, he remakes himself in America's hopeful image. Under the watch of his peerless stenographer, Violet Brown, he finds an extraordinary use for his talents of observation. But political winds continue to push him between north and south, in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach - the lacuna - between truth and public presumption. This is a gripping story of identity, connection with our past, and the power of words to create or devastate. Like no other novel yet written, it illuminates an era when bold internationalism gave way to a post-war landscape of narrowly defined 'Americanism'. Crossing two decades, from the vibrant revolutionary murals of Mexico City to the halls of a Congress bent on eradicating the colour red, The Lacuna is as deep and rich as the New World itself. ISBN - 9780571252640

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Kingsolver, Barbara: THE LACUNA, UK Faber & Faber 2009 ; weicher Einband / soft cover
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Uncorrected Proff Copy, PB, printed card covers, 527pp. Minor rubbing, creasing to covers, inside is square, clean & tight. Set in the revolutionary world of Diego Rivera & Frieda Kahlo, and Mexico , a young boy observes. Later in the US during WW2 he uses his skills to political ends. Reprint Soft Cover 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; Reprint

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