Paradise
NY: Knopf, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth. 6.5"x9.5". 318 pp. Black cloth boards w/gilt "TM" on front and lettering on spine. Deckled edge. Author photo by Kate Kunz. DJ design by Carol Devine Carson. Book printed in 1997. Type set in Electra, a typeface designed by W. A. Dwiggins (1880-1956). Composed b North Market Street Graphics. Printed and bound by r.R. Donnelley & Sons. Book designed by Virginia Tan. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, and unmarked. Shelf wear to DJ. Black spot on back side of DJ. Collectible - Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #13188
ISBN: 9780679433743
Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damaged infants were born in one family. Daughters refused to get out of bed. Brides disappeared on their honeymoons. Two brothers shot each other on New Year's Day. Trips to Demby for VD shots common. And what went on at the Oven these days was not to be believed . . . The proof they had been collecting since the terrible discovery in the spring could not be denied: the one thing that connected all these catastrophes was in the Convent. And in the Convent were those women.
In Paradise--her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature--Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance.
Price: $25.00