ISBN: 9781555972998 - bullet collection (8 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. "Passionate, lyrical, and deeply humane, this tale of two sisters caught in a war without end moves effortlessly through space and time . . . an astonishing first novel." --Andrea Barrett Marianna watches her older sister Alaine collect the detritus of war from around Beirut--bullets, shrapnel, grenades, a gas mask. These objects, some taken from dead bodies, catalogue Alaine's retreat into a dangerous depression. As the family struggles to endure the daily violence of the Middle East conflict, it is Marianna who becomes her older sister's keeper, watching for any signal that might trigger one of Alaine's frequent, grim excavations. But once the family escapes to America, Alaine's newfound contentment is as alien to Marianna as her madness once was. As Marianna longs for her beloved, war-torn home, she struggles to understand that now she is the difficult sister. In lyrical, dreamlike prose, The Bullet Collection by Patricia Sarrafian Ward mines both the stunning, exotic landscape of Beirut and the pure, defiant landscape of a child's heart, and shows how war leaves its indelible scars on both.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. "Passionate, lyrical, and deeply humane, this tale of two sisters caught in a war without end moves effortlessly through space and time . . . an astonishing first novel." --Andrea Barrett Marianna watches her older sister Alaine collect the detritus of war from around Beirut--bullets, shrapnel, grenades, a gas mask. These objects, some taken from dead bodies, catalogue Alaine's retreat into a dangerous depression. As the family struggles to endure the daily violence of the Middle East conflict, it is Marianna who becomes her older sister's keeper, watching for any signal that might trigger one of Alaine's frequent, grim excavations. But once the family escapes to America, Alaine's newfound contentment is as alien to Marianna as her madness once was. As Marianna longs for her beloved, war-torn home, she struggles to understand that now she is the difficult sister. In lyrical, dreamlike prose, The Bullet Collection by Patricia Sarrafian Ward mines both the stunning, exotic landscape of Beirut and the pure, defiant landscape of a child's heart, and shows how war leaves its indelible scars on both.…

Paperback. Zustand: As New. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDFine in Fine dust jacket. First edition.

Hard. Zustand: Very Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Very Fine. 1st. First edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Published Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1999. Small 4to., 7 1/4" x 10 1/4." Recipient of the 1998 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. Very fine in near very fine dust jacket.…

First Edition. First edition and first printing. 70 pages. A complimentary copy with laid in publisher sheet. James Laughlin Award winning collection of poems. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Zustand: FINE. First printing. Her second collection of poems and prose-poems, winner of the James Laughlin Award (judges were Lynn Emanuel,Yusef Kominyakaa and David St John) Slightly oversized. 70 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Recipient of the 1998 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets.

Unbound. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Broadside. 9" x 11". Faint bend near one corner thus near fine.