PARADISE
$250 · Offered by Biblio
First edition
New York: Knopf, 1998. First edition. Paperback. A fine copy, as issued. Proof. In this powerful work, four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the 1970s. Each of singular provenance, they together suggest the vicissitudes of the era, of the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, the counter culture, generational conflict. The inexorableness of the attack and the efforts to avert it lie at the heart of this book. In the original perfect bound wrappers, as issued. Publication date of January 15, 1998. Her first novel since winning the Nobel Prize and the third and final novel of the trilogy that included Beloved and Jazz.
- Publisher: Knopf
- Year: 1998
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: paperback
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