Unto the Sons
by Talese, Gay
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0679410341
- ISBN 13
- 9780679410348
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 0679410341 . Burgundy cloth covers with gilt titles to the spine. Very Good ++ with a tight binding and a bright, unmarked interior. Very light spine end bumping. The DJ is unclipped, in Very Good condition with light cover rubbing & edgewear. A few dots of foxing to the top fore edge. "Bestselling writer Gay Talese uses his own family history to tell the epic story of an Italian family over three generations. Moving from a tiny feudal village in southern Italy to the battlefields of the First World War, to Paris in the 1920s, and finally to the promised land of America, Unto the Sons is a brilliant mixture of history and story-telling. Talse carries us into the nineteenth- century patriarchal world of his great-grandfather in the village of Maida (after which London's Maida Vale was named) - a region immersed in the mysticism of the Church and haunted by echoes of Roman glory and the subsequent waves of foreign invasion. His story moves from Italy to America and back again as it follows the men of the village, among them the author's grandfather; 9.30 X 6.30 X 2 inches .
Synopsis
Unto the Sons is a 1992 book by Gay Talese. The book traces the origins of Talese's own family, beginning with his great-grandfather in Maida, Italy, his grandfather who immigrated to Pennsylvania and Talese's father, who immigrated to the United States separately following World War I.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13042
- Title
- Unto the Sons
- Author
- Talese, Gay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679410341
- ISBN 13
- 9780679410348
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- 0679410341, Social History, Talese Family
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography & Memoirs;
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