Oxford: Oneworld, 2009. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good+ — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. . First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (black boards with silver titling to the spine) Physically 8¾” x 5½” (0.8 kg); 417pp; ISBN: 978-1-780-74652-4 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #182802|| Condition:

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Read Marlon James's posts on the Penguin blog. A true triumph of voice and storytelling, The Book of Night Women rings with both profound authenticity and a distinctly contemporary energy. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they- and she-will come to both revere and fear. The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been plotting a slave revolt, and as Lilith comes of age they see her as the key to their plans. But when she begins to understand her own feelings, desires, and identity, Lilith starts to push at the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman, and risks becoming the conspiracy's weak link. But the real revelation of the book-the secret to the stirring imagery and insistent prose-is Marlon James himself, a young writer at once breathtakingly daring and wholly in command of his craft.

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Bookseller: BookLovers of Bath (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 182802
Title: The Book of Night Women
Author: Marlon James
Format/Binding: Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ — in Very Good Dust Wrapper.
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1780746520
ISBN 13: 9781780746524
Publisher: Oxford: Oneworld
Date Published: 2009
Keywords: women slaves fiction, social history fiction, historical fiction, jamaica fiction, 18th century fiction, first edition books, books written by marlon james, 1-851-68708-4

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BookLovers of Bath is set in the pastoral idyll of Peasedown St. John in Somerset (God's Own Country) in the south west of England. My wife and I owned the village Post Office until the modern world caught up with us in 2014. At that point I converted the premises to a small book shop, Fact or Fable, with a stock of around 4,000 titles in stock. I've been selling books worldwide since 1997 and rather hope to get the hang of it shortly…

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