The Issa Valley A Novel Paperback - 2000

* The Issa Valley -New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. paperback 10 sprinting. Paperback. good/none. book design by Guy Fleming author photograph by Jerry Bauer. First paperback edition 1982. Softcover is in good condition showing slight wear at edges. Pages have started to oxidize but otherwise are clean and unmarked. Translation copyright 1978, 1981 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Thomas, the child-protagonist of The Issa Valley, is subject to both the contradictions of nature in this severe northern setting and sometimes enchanting, sometimes brutal timbre of village life. There are the deep pine and spruce forests, the grouse and the deer, and the hunter's gun. There is Magdalena, the beautiful mistress of the village priest, whose suicide unleashes her ghost to haunt the parish. There are also the loving grandparents with whom Thomas lives, who provide a balance of the not-quite-Dostoevskian devils that visit the villagers. In the end, Thomas is severed from his childhood and the Issa River, and leaves prepared for adventures beyond his valley. Poetic and richly imagined, The Issa Valley is a masterful work of fiction from one of our greatest living poets.see pictures maybe this will do it maybe it won't. The Issa Valley: A Novel Author Czeslaw Milosz Edition revised Publisher Macmillan, 1981 ISBN 0374516952, 9780374516956 288 pages LAX Vespa,Los Angeles Culver City- Media Mail USPS-you get the copy you were viewing carefully Drop kick-packed to protect it in transit - sent media mail - 7 days usually coast to coast, less if closer.. grey sb BiB1801 i