THE MERMAID CHAIR
by Kidd, Sue Monk
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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Columbus, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY.: Viking. Very Good. 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover in dust jacket. This book is hard-bound in tan paper covered boards, with a tan spine with blue stamping, in a very nice dust jacket. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean, with a bit of faint wrinkling to the outer edge of the pages. This book is signed by the author Sue Monk Kidd on the title-page. From the collection of Cuthbert Christian Thambimuttu (1945-2019) of Columbus, Ohio - known to many of his bookseller, author, and illustrator friends as "Tubby." He was persistent in the pursuit of autographed books by the writers and artists he admired, including Gorey, Sendak, Heaney, Byatt, Morrison, Updike and many more. Joseph Heller once wrote to Tubby in response to one more "please sign and return" request: "This is turning out to be a hell of a lot of work!" All signed books unconditionally guaranteed to be authentic. Many of the books are inscribed to both Cuthbert and his great friend of more than two decades Antonia Gale Moss. ; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. Jessie Sullivan’s conventional life has been “molded to the smallest space possible.” So when she is called home to cope with her mother’s startling and enigmatic act of violence, Jessie finds herself relieved to be apart from her husband, Hugh. Jessie loves Hugh, but on Egret Island—amid the gorgeous marshlands and tidal creeks—she becomes drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk who is mere months from taking his final vows. What transpires will unlock the roots of her mother’s tormented past, but most of all, as Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it, she will find a freedom that feels overwhelmingly right. What inspires the yearning for a soul mate? Few writers have explored, as Kidd does, the lush, unknown region of the feminine soul where the thin line between the spiritual and the erotic exists. The Mermaid Chair is a vividly imagined novel about the passions of the spirit and the ecstasies of the body; one that illuminates a woman’s self-awakening with the brilliance and power that only a writer of Kidd’s ability could conjure.
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- Bookseller
- Hoffman Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 76506
- Title
- THE MERMAID CHAIR
- Author
- Kidd, Sue Monk
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover in dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY.
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- Sue Monk Kidd, Signed
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