Late Wife
by Emerson, Claudia
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- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- As New
- Seller
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press. As New. 2006. Limited Signed Edition. Full-Leather. A special Limited edition, this copy is SIGNED by the Poet Claudia Emerson. A wonderful collectible book in As New condition, never taken out of its original shrink-wrap; Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Award for Poetry, Late Wife by Claudia Emerson explores a woman's disappearance from one life and reappearance in another as she addresses her former husband, herself, and her new husband in a series of epistolary poems. Though not satisfied in her first marriage, she laments vanishing from the life she and her husband shared for years. She then describes the unexpected joys of solitude during her recovery and emotional convalescence. Finally, in a sequence of sonnets, she speaks to her new husband, whose first wife died from lung cancer. Contains all of the classic Easton Press trimmings: premium leather, silk moiré end leaves, distinctive cover design, raised bands, accented in real 22KT gold, satin ribbon page marker, gilded page edges, long-lasting, high quality acid-neutral paper, sewn pages for strength and durability; 8vo; Signed by Author .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12722
- Title
- Late Wife
- Author
- Emerson, Claudia
- Format/Binding
- Full-Leather
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Edition
- Limited Signed Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, CT
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Full-Leather, Poetry, Pulitzer Prize Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Romance; Awarded Books / Pulitzer Prize;
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