The Winter Helen Dropped By A novel
by Kinsella, W. P
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0002243806
- ISBN 13
- 9780002243803
- Seller
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Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Harpercollins. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0002243806 . About new book, unmarked, in lightly rubbed DJ. ; 186 pages; Narrated by young Jamie O'Day, who is beginning to understand that, like his daddy says, "every story is about sex or death, or sometimes both,"<I>The Winter Helen Dropped By</I>is a story of growing up, of loss, of laughter and of characters both sexy and dead.<P>Helen is the young, pregnant Indian woman who drops into Jamie's life one freeze-the-balls-off-a-brass-monkey snow-storming night. It is her haunting presence, woven throughout Jamie's accounts of the spring he damn near drowned, the summer of the peculiar reconstituted wedding of Mrs.Beatrice Ann Stevenson and Mr.Earl J. Rasmussen, followed by the summer White Chaps murdered his wife, that makes this a funny, sad and wholly wonderful new novel. .
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- Bookseller
- B-Line Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22163
- Title
- The Winter Helen Dropped By A novel
- Author
- Kinsella, W. P
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0002243806
- ISBN 13
- 9780002243803
- Publisher
- Harpercollins
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- 0002243806, British, World Literature, Literature & Fiction, Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- British;
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About the Seller
B-Line Books
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Amherst, Nova Scotia
About B-Line Books
B-Line Books is an internet business operating from my large home in Amherst, Nova Scotia. I am a retired English teacher with a lifetime of gathered books for sale. Presently, about 24,000 books in 90 categories are listed with an emphasis in the humanities. I look for books I am interested in myself, and feel that most of the inventory is of high quality. See for yourself.
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