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High Tide in Tucson: Essays From Now Or Never
by Kingsolver, Barbara
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060172916
- ISBN 13
- 9780060172916
- Seller
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New Port Richey, Florida, United States
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About This Item
HarperCollins, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. Fair/Very Fine. (1st edition, 1st printing) Sturdy book, green cloth spine, yellow boards, very bright gilt lettering dream catcher illustrated at top front, spine badly slanted from poor storage, a pink shell pattern inside covers and adjacent end papers, 273 heavy pages. Signed in neat black ink above printed name on title page, a postcard included with same color-illustration as DJ/ DJ glossy with stunning color-illustration of desert scene with crab in shell. maroon spine and bottom back, a color photo of Kingsolver at top back. Very Fine DJ/Fair book.
Synopsis
"There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature," raves the Washington Post Book World, and it is right. She has been nominated three times for the ABBY award, and her critically acclaimed writings consistently enjoy spectacular commercial success as they entertain and touch her legions of loyal fans. In High Tide in Tucson, she returnsto her familiar themes of family, community, the common good and the natural world. The title essay considers Buster, a hermit crab that accidentally stows away on Kingsolver's return trip from the Bahamas to her desert home, and turns out to have manic-depressive tendencies. Buster is running around for all he's worth -- one can only presume it's high tide in Tucson. Kingsolver brings a moral vision and refreshing sense of humor to subjects ranging from modern motherhood to the history of private property to the suspended citizenship of human beings in the Animal Kingdom. Beautifully packaged, with original illustrations by well-known illustrator Paul Mirocha, these wise lessons on the urgent business of being alive make it a perfect gift for Kingsolver's many fans.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Callaghan Books South
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57160
- Title
- High Tide in Tucson: Essays From Now Or Never
- Author
- Kingsolver, Barbara
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060172916
- ISBN 13
- 9780060172916
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- Essays Signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autographed; Essay;
Terms of Sale
Callaghan Books South
Books may be returned with 5 days for full refund--in same condition as sent.
About the Seller
Callaghan Books South
Biblio member since 2004
New Port Richey, Florida
About Callaghan Books South
An internet bookstore, we have added 20 books a day to our inventory for a total of more than 40,000, specializing in Poetry, Vietnam Conflict, Native American, Literary Criticism.
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