9780385264174 - Early from the Dance von Payne, David (19 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: Good. 1st. 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.

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Zustand: Very Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. A clean, tight copy. Smoke-free shop. Defect-free. SALE.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Signed. First Edition. SIGNED by the author. Foxing has occurred.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Used: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDPsychological fictionGood condition, minor wear and tear to dustjacket, dog eared pages, prompt shipping with tracking.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket little edgeworn and sunned. Boards slightly sunned. Later printing *.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Nice solid condition.

1/4 Cloth. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. First edition/first printing in Near Fine condition in slightly rubbed, Very Good+ dust-jacket, limited chipping to corners; This book tells the story of three generations of a family from the time they are born to when they are adults. The story is set in the Appalachian Mountains in the early twentieth century.; 8vo; FSA.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Alex Gotfryd (Author photograph) and Wendell Minor (illustrator). First Edition [stated]. [12], 492, [6] pages. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. The author signed below his name and wrote an inscription at the top of the title page. The inscription reads To Virginia--An old family friend from Henderson. Best wishes, David. The dust jacket has minor wear, edge tears and soiling. Set primarily in North Carolina, Early from the Dance is a Southern novel in the grand tradition - a spellbinding story, beautifully told, about characters who fix themselves indelibly in our memory. Set on the North Carolina Outer Banks, Payne's second novel, Early from the Dance was a Literary Guild selection. Reviewing for The Boston Globe, critic Richard Dyer called Payne, "a defining voice for this generation. Reading stretches of Early From the Dance is like attending a play in which every line is a curtain line. Payne has the deepest human sympathy for his characters and knowledge of the heart; everyone in this book comes alive." David Payne is an American novelist and memoirist. He is the author of five novels and a memoir. His first novel won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. Payne has published in The New York Times,[7] The Washington Post, the Paris daily, Libération, the Oxford American and elsewhere and has taught at Bennington College, Duke University and in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Queens University of Charlotte. Adam Jenrette, thirty-one and a successful Manhattan artist, has been hiding from his past for too long. When a relative's death calls him home to North Carolina, he is pulled into an intense encounter with his own eighteen-year-old self and with the two most important people in his life -- Cary Kinlaw, his best boyhood friend, and Jane McCrae, the girl they both, disastrously, loved. And as he relives one incredible, heartbreaking summer from thirteen years before, he dares to recover what he changed his life to lose. Derived from a Kirkus review: Payne offers a southern chronicle that works over its materials for too long and finally turns tiresome. Adam returns home and jump-starts his long-ago affair with Jane; he and friend Cary, a suicide, both loved her years ago: "We stood there a minute, hesitating at the gate of Memory Lane." Jane: "That was then, and this is now." With that kind of profundity, the narrative moves between Adam and Jane, past and present. Adam's bond with Cary, based on "the lost cause of our fathers," and his attachment to Jane, whom Cary loved first, is milked until it bleeds. We flashback often to their early college years, climactically to a wild summer: Adam and Jane work at a resort and become entangled with jaded Cleanth (a manic-depressive who has stopped taking his lithium) and his former lover Morgan. After trying "to collapse twenty years of living into a single summer," Jane and Adam take refuge from the adult-infested world in each other's arms (Adam has attempted to be loyal to Cary) before a distressed Cary arrives, discovers the truth and kills himself: "He seemed like a sage who served a long apprenticeship, but whose only wisdom was despair. . ." Only one ending is possible for this long soap-opera: Adam and Jane, having weathered their death-haunted grief, complete their stroll down Memory Lane and end up in each other's arms. A coming-of-age novel that manages to touch upon many a cliché of southern literature. There's a lot of evocative writing, especially concerning the ambiguities of growing up in a difficult time, but even long stretches of elegant wordplay can't make up for a plot that is not developed so much as filled out.