A Thread of Grace: A Novel
by Russell, Mary Doria
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375501843
- ISBN 13
- 9780375501845
- Seller
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About This Item
Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. The image provided is the actual book I'm offering for sale. No markings or damage to any pages. No sunning. No clips. Structure of the book (covers, binding, spine, hinges) is tight and free of damage. Page block is nice and square. Cut pages. Additional photos will be provided upon request in order to ensure the quality and integrity of your book purchase.
Synopsis
Set in Italy during the dramatic finale of World War II, this new novel is the first in seven years by the bestselling author of The Sparrow and Children of God.It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum is learning Italian with a suitcase in her hand. She and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to be safe at last, now that the Italians have broken with Germany and made a separate peace with the Allies. The Blums will soon discover that Italy is anything but peaceful, as it becomes overnight an open battleground among the Nazis, the Allies, resistance fighters, Jews in hiding, and ordinary Italian civilians trying to survive.Mary Doria Russell sets her first historical novel against this dramatic background, tracing the lives of a handful of fascinating characters. Through them, she tells the little-known but true story of the network of Italian citizens who saved the lives of forty-three thousand Jews during the war's final phase. The result of five years of meticulous research, A Thread of Grace is an ambitious, engrossing novel of ideas, history, and marvelous characters that will please Russell's many fans and earn her even more.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- The Dusty Bookcase (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0003100
- Title
- A Thread of Grace: A Novel
- Author
- Russell, Mary Doria
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 448 p. Audience: General/trade.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375501843
- ISBN 13
- 9780375501845
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- 1940's; Fiction; Historical; Holocaust; Italy; Judaic; World War, 1939-1945
- Bookseller catalogs
- World War II; Historical; Fiction;
- Size
- Octavo
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