PRAISESONG FOR THE WIDOW.
by Marshall, Paule
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good in a near fine dustjacket (top edge dusty, stamp on copyright page re "powys library service" but no other /near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0860684539
- ISBN 13
- 9780860684534
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Synopsis
Praisesong for the Widow is a novel by Paule Marshall which takes place in the mid seventies, chronicling the life of Avey Johnson, a sixty-four year old African American widow on a physical and emotional journey in the Caribbean island of Carriacou. Throughout the novel, there are many flashbacks to Avey's earlier life experiences with her late husband, Jerome Johnson, as well as childhood events that reconnect her with her lost cultural roots.
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- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18818
- Title
- PRAISESONG FOR THE WIDOW.
- Author
- Marshall, Paule
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in a near fine dustjacket (top edge dusty, stamp on copyright page re "powys library service" but no other
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0860684539
- ISBN 13
- 9780860684534
- Publisher
- Virago Press,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 1983.
- Bookseller catalogs
- African American Literature;
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