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The Poisonwood Bible
by Kingsolver, Barbara
- Used
- near fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0060175400
- ISBN 13
- 9780060175405
- Seller
-
truth or consequences, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
New York: HarperFlamingo, 1998. First Edition - Advanced Reader's Ed. . Paper Back. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 542pp.; SC blk.w/white spine-tan w/brwn.; slight rub w/clean,tight pgs. " ...a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959." signed by Kingsolver.
Synopsis
The Poisonwood Bible (1998) by Barbara Kingsolver is a bestselling novel about a missionary family, the Prices, who in 1959 move from Georgia to the fictional village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo. The Prices' story, which parallels their host country's tumultuous emergence into the post-colonial era, is narrated by the five women of the family: Orleanna, long-suffering wife of Baptist missionary Nathan Price, and their four daughters – Rachel, Leah, Adah, and Ruth May.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Xochis Bookstore and Gallery (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051039
- Title
- The Poisonwood Bible
- Author
- Kingsolver, Barbara
- Format/Binding
- Paper Back
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition - Advanced Reader's Ed.
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0060175400
- ISBN 13
- 9780060175405
- Publisher
- HarperFlamingo
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Fiction; Kingsolver
- Bookseller catalogs
- Stan;
Terms of Sale
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