Augusta Cotton
by Erhart, Margaret
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0944072216
- ISBN 13
- 9780944072219
- Seller
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CEDAR GROVE, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge: Zoland Books, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8x5x1. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. 289 pp.ex-library with usual markings, some dmg to pastedowns; light edge wear to boards and jacket; "What was lost would be lost again every time we invented it, until the pearls of our lives were hidden under so many layers of story, that only through great effort and great love would we ever be able to bring them back." Told through the voice of Augusta Cotton as she recollects her childhood, this imaginative novel captures the magical and turbulent times of two eleven-year-old girls searching for meaning in the quiet confusion that surrounds them. It is the end of 1963. Augusta's new friend, Helen Walsh, has mysterious and prolonged absences from school, and soon she is diagnosed with lupus. Augusta's father, the respected town doctor, has many answers, but he cannot make Helen well. Jordan, Helen's mother, is still shocked by the circumstances surrounding her husband's untimely death, circumstances in which Helen is somehow involved. The young girls spend more and more time together reading and telling the stories of their families. They grow closer as Augusta cares for her new best friend. In between shared laughter and the silence of Helen's pain, they find themselves entering a complex adult world. Eventually Augusta learns what happened to her friend's family, which includes a brain-damaged older brother, and her mother's friend Joan, a taxi driver. With intelligence and sensitivity, Margaret Erhart introduces us to resilient characters in a story that is full of the perplexities, mysteries, and visions of childhood. She brings us a story of the living and the dead, of wellness and illness, and of a world haunted by memory.
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- Seller
- Kayleighbug Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 006699
- Title
- Augusta Cotton
- Author
- Erhart, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0944072216
- ISBN 13
- 9780944072219
- Publisher
- Zoland Books
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1992
- Size
- 8x5x1
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Fiction;
- X weight
- 21 oz
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