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Published by Brand: MacMurray Beck, 1999
ISBN 10: 1878448900ISBN 13: 9781878448903
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A Dutch painting of a young girl, possibly a Vermeer, survives three and a half centuries through loss, flood, anonymity, secrecy, theft, even the Holocaust. This is the story of its sometimes desperate owners whose lives are influenced by its seductive beauty and mystery, and whose defining moments take place in its presence. Despite their unsatisfied longings, their own and others' flaws, the girl in hyacinth blue has the power to generate love in all its human variety.The German-American son of the Nazi who looted it from a Jewish home in Amsterdam in 1942, hides it out of shame for his father's atrocities, loves it with awe and passion, wrestles with moral questions of unlawful ownership and his own responsibilities of penance and restitution, and, like his father, ultimately fails as a human being.The rest of the eight stories which make up this composite novel move back in time to the Renaissance. In each episode, the painting figures in casual affairs, natural catastrophe, flawed marriages, domestic violence, a murder, a hanging, yet in spite of these dreary circumstances, the power of beauty and art elevates the characters in individual, subtle ways.
Published by Brand: MacMurray Beck, 1999
ISBN 10: 1878448889ISBN 13: 9781878448880
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. American first. Winner of The Age Book of the Year in Australia, Three Dollars is about Eddie, an honest, compassionate man who finds himself, at the age of thirty-eight, with a wife, a child, and three dollars. At any other time the world would have smiled on him. But this is the nineties and the world values other things. A brilliantly deft and poignant portrait of a man attempting to retain his humanity, his family, and his sense of humor in a corporate world.
Published by Brand: MacMurray Beck, 1999
ISBN 10: 1878448919ISBN 13: 9781878448910
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In a literary voice that is both original and powerfully unsettling, William Gay tells the story of Nathan Winer, a young and headstrong Tennessee carpenter who lost his father years ago to a human evil that is greater and closer at hand than any the boy can imagine - until he learns of it first-hand. Gay's remarkable debut novel, The Long Home, is also the story of Amber Rose, a beautiful young woman forced to live beneath that evil who recognizes even as a child that Nathan is her first and last chance at escape. And it is the story of William Tell Oliver, a solitary old man who watches the growing evil from the dark woods and adds to his own weathered guilt by failing to do anything about it. Set in rural Tennessee in the 1940s, The Long Home will bring to mind once again the greatest Southern novelists and will haunt the reader with its sense of solitude , longing, and the deliverance that is always just out of reach.
Published by Brand: MacMurray Beck, 1999
ISBN 10: 1878448900ISBN 13: 9781878448903
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: new. A Dutch painting of a young girl, possibly a Vermeer, survives three and a half centuries through loss, flood, anonymity, secrecy, theft, even the Holocaust. This is the story of its sometimes desperate owners whose lives are influenced by its seductive beauty and mystery, and whose defining moments take place in its presence. Despite their unsatisfied longings, their own and others' flaws, the girl in hyacinth blue has the power to generate love in all its human variety.The German-American son of the Nazi who looted it from a Jewish home in Amsterdam in 1942, hides it out of shame for his father's atrocities, loves it with awe and passion, wrestles with moral questions of unlawful ownership and his own responsibilities of penance and restitution, and, like his father, ultimately fails as a human being.The rest of the eight stories which make up this composite novel move back in time to the Renaissance. In each episode, the painting figures in casual affairs, natural catastrophe, flawed marriages, domestic violence, a murder, a hanging, yet in spite of these dreary circumstances, the power of beauty and art elevates the characters in individual, subtle ways.
Published by Brand: MacMurray Beck, 1999
ISBN 10: 1878448919ISBN 13: 9781878448910
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
Published by Brand: MacMurray Beck, 2002
ISBN 10: 1931561028ISBN 13: 9781931561020
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
Published by Brand: MacMurray Beck, 1998
ISBN 10: 1878448862ISBN 13: 9781878448866
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
Published by Brand: MacMurray Beck, 1999
ISBN 10: 1878448900ISBN 13: 9781878448903
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: MacMurray Beck, 1999
ISBN 10: 1878448870ISBN 13: 9781878448873
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: MacMurray Beck, 1998
ISBN 10: 1878448862ISBN 13: 9781878448866
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: MacMurray Beck, 1999
ISBN 10: 1878448919ISBN 13: 9781878448910
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: MacMurray Beck, 2002
ISBN 10: 1931561052ISBN 13: 9781931561051
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: MacMurray Beck, 1999
ISBN 10: 1878448889ISBN 13: 9781878448880
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. First Edition. American first. Winner of The Age Book of the Year in Australia, Three Dollars is about Eddie, an honest, compassionate man who finds himself, at the age of thirty-eight, with a wife, a child, and three dollars. At any other time the world would have smiled on him. But this is the nineties and the world values other things. A brilliantly deft and poignant portrait of a man attempting to retain his humanity, his family, and his sense of humor in a corporate world.
Published by Brand: MacMurray Beck, 1999
ISBN 10: 1878448919ISBN 13: 9781878448910
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. First Edition. In a literary voice that is both original and powerfully unsettling, William Gay tells the story of Nathan Winer, a young and headstrong Tennessee carpenter who lost his father years ago to a human evil that is greater and closer at hand than any the boy can imagine - until he learns of it first-hand. Gay's remarkable debut novel, The Long Home, is also the story of Amber Rose, a beautiful young woman forced to live beneath that evil who recognizes even as a child that Nathan is her first and last chance at escape. And it is the story of William Tell Oliver, a solitary old man who watches the growing evil from the dark woods and adds to his own weathered guilt by failing to do anything about it. Set in rural Tennessee in the 1940s, The Long Home will bring to mind once again the greatest Southern novelists and will haunt the reader with its sense of solitude , longing, and the deliverance that is always just out of reach.