Pure

Forest Hill, Maryland: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2014. BA3 - A first limited edition printing hardcover book SIGNED by author on the limitation page (page after the front free endpaper) in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling on the lower spine, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. This special signed edition of PURE is limited to 698 numbered copies. This is number ((665 which was marked out) and "PC" written). We know you are here, our brothers and sisters... 10.25"x7.25", 420 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather, she thinks about what is lost - how the world went from amusement parks, movie theaters, birthday parties, fathers and mothers... to ash and dust, scars, permanent burns, and fused, damaged bodies. And now, at an age when everyone is required to turn themselves over to the militia to either be trained as a soldier or, if they are too damaged and weak, to be used as live targets, Pressia can no longer pretend to be small. Pressia is on the run. There are those who escaped the apocalypse unmarked. Pures. They are tucked safely inside the Dome that protects their healthy, superior bodies. Yet Partridge, whose father is one of the most influential men in the Dome, feels isolated and lonely. Different. He thinks about loss-maybe just because his family is broken; his father is emotionally distant; his brother killed himself; and his mother never made it inside their shelter. Or maybe it's his claustrophobia: his feeling that this Dome has become a swaddling of intensely rigid order. So when a slipped phrase suggests his mother might still be alive, Partridge risks his life to leave the Dome to find her. When Pressia meets Partridge, their worlds shatter all over again.. Signed by Author. First Limited Edition Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.