Isbn: 9780060196349 - the cloud sketcher (15 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. As the liner Ile de France docks in New York harbor, passengers notice with surprise the policemen gathered below and speculate as to which criminal among them will soon be apprehended. Here and there a single word floats above the general din: murder. Now and then a sage head tips knowingly in the direction of a flamboyant bootlegger: a crime of passion. But when the crowd begins to make its way down the gangplank, the notorious gangster slips through unmolested. Instead it's a celebrated architect with bums from a childhood accident partly covered by the patch over one eye -- who submits to authorities and is taken away in handcuffs. So begins The Cloud Sketcher, a passionate tale of love and war and art that ranges from the ice fields of the Arctic Circle at the dawn of the last century to the ruthless world of New York real estate speculation in the 1920s. In a tiny village in the northernmost reaches of Finland, a young boy named Esko Vaananen mourns the death of his mother, who died in the same fire that so horribly scarred his face. Miserably, impossibly in love with the beautiful daughter of a Russian aristocrat, Esko is at the brink of despair when, in the magical light of the aurora borealis, he has a vision of an impossibly tall building rising gracefully from the frozen lake and disappearing into the clouds above him. This pilvenpiirtaja--"cloud sketcher," or skyscraper sparks Esko's lifelong quest for beauty. He becomes an architect, believing that if he can create something of unparalleled loveliness, surely then he will be worthy of the love of Katerina Malysheva. This obsessive desire will cause Esko to risk everything time and again: as a reluctant hero in the bloody Battle of Tampere (the defining battle in the Finnish Civil War); as a laborer on the treacherous high steel of a riveting gang, hundreds of feet above Manhattan's city streets; as a player in the ruthless world of New York real estate speculation; and, finally, as a man accused of murdering the husband of the woman he loves. The Cloud Sketcher is a transforming journey into the heart of beauty and the peril of love, a romantic, lyrical epic that resurrects history with such authenticity and drama as to place Richard Rayner in the company of our very best novelists.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGood in poor stained edgeworn dust jacket. Tips bumped. First edition *.

Zustand: FINE. First printing. Epic historical novel ranging from Finland at the beginning of the 20th century to New York City in the 1920's - when skyscrapers began to dominate the skyline of modern cities. 435 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

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Zustand: NEAR FINE. First printing. Epic historical novel ranging from Finland at the beginning of the 20th century to New York City in the 1920's - when skyscrapers began to dominate the skyline of modern cities. SIGNED on the title page. 435 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line.).…

Zustand: FINE. First printing. Epic historical novel ranging from Finland at the beginning of the 20th century to New York City in the 1920's - when skyscrapers began to dominate the skyline of modern cities. SIGNED and dated on the title page. 435 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Zustand: NEAR FINE. First printing. Epic historical novel ranging from Finland at the beginning of the 20th century to New York City in the 1920's - when skyscrapers began to dominate the skyline of modern cities. SIGNED on the title page. 435 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. From its stunning opening -- a celebrated Finnish architect is arrested for murder as he arrives in New York Harbor in 1928 -- The Cloud Sketcher reveals one of this generation's most admired young novelists ('Richard Rayner is a brilliantly gifted writer'*) at the full height of his storytelling power. From the ice fields of rural Finland to the ruthless world of New York real estate speculation, The Cloud Sketcher traces the life of Esko Vaananen, a young architect who dreams of building skyscrapers and winning the love of a beautiful Russian aristocrat. Recklessly pursuing these twin passions, Esko's journey takes him from the battlefields of war-torn Helsinki to the gangster underworld of New York City in the 1920s -- and to a Faustian bargain he hopes will bring him artistic perfection and the love he has always desired. *Milwaukee Journal SentinelBeautifully, vividly written, The Cloud Sketcher is a powerful evocation of a turbulent age and a tragic romance -- and promises to become one of the year's most beloved novels.…