FALLING ANGELS.
by Gowdy, Barbara
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket./fine
- ISBN 10
- 0939149354
- ISBN 13
- 9780939149353
- Seller
-
Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: SOHO Press,, (1990). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First US printing. Canadian author's second novel, the story of three sisters growing up in the sixties in a disfunctional family, with a mother who never leaves the house and a seemingly normal father, who is in reality both abusive and an alcoholic. "A coming-of-age story set in the sixties--Gowdy sets the suburban dream on its edge and flips it back and forth, revealing first its dark and then ludicrous sides."(The Globe and Mail) SIGNED on the title page.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87434
- Title
- FALLING ANGELS.
- Author
- Gowdy, Barbara
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0939149354
- ISBN 13
- 9780939149353
- Publisher
- SOHO Press,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1990)
- Keywords
- women authors, 60s, coming of age,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Canadian writers and history;
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