ISBN: 9780007249619 - the pagan house (5 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The Pagan House This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.…

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Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. …

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 410 pages. minor wear, tannedThe much-anticipated new novel from the acclaimed author of 'The Gift' - a bl end of detective novel, historical fiction and the painful coming-of-age story o f a confused young boy. Edgar was neither hard-bitten nor hard-boiled. He hadn't seen too much - he'd hardly seen anything at all - and he was bursting, overflowing, with inaccessible juvenile potency. No one would suspect him of a d angerous agenda. But he could not drive a car. And he still needed permission to stay out past suppertime. Edgar Pagan, nearly thirteen, detests his Engl ish mother's new boyfriend, so when she takes her son away from him across the A tlantic to spend time with his American father, it is a relief and a new adventu re for him. He is an unlikely detective, Edgar, but that is what he becomes at t he Pagan house, home to his grandmother Fay, and again some years later when he sets down on paper the Pagan past, in particular the peculiar circumstances of h is father's ancestors in the nineteenth century, 'the story of how I came to be me.' 'The Pagan House', David Flusfeder's extraordinary new novel, is the story of how a family came to be established, of the extreme nineteenth-century Christian sect, the Perfectionists, utopians with a belief in free love, who bu ilt that family home. It is about the life and tragic death of Mary Pagan, the s haping force in this unusual family, and the impending death 150 years later of her descendent, Edgar's grandmother, and the consequent destiny of that house. W ith its blend of detective novel, historical fiction and the painful coming-of-a ge of a confused young boy in Edgar, Flusfeder brilliantly weaves these strands together with style and verve. 'Wise and generous: a complete story and a very g.…