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THE MERMAID CHAIR
by Kidd, Sue Monk
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670033944
- ISBN 13
- 9780670033942
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Near Fine. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, yellow quarter cloth with pale gold lettering over off-white/yellowish boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with painting of the shoreline seen through a sea shell window by John Collier, xii, [xiii-xiv: blank] + 335 pages + [2] Credits. Sue Monk Kidd (born 1948) is an American writer--and former RN--from Georgia best known for her novels The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings.<br /> <br /> SUPERIOR CONDITION: Tight, bright, clean copy. Bright and clean dust jacket (unclipped). No previous owner or remainder marks.
Synopsis
Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. Jessie Sullivan’s conventional life has been “molded to the smallest space possible.” So when she is called home to cope with her mother’s startling and enigmatic act of violence, Jessie finds herself relieved to be apart from her husband, Hugh. Jessie loves Hugh, but on Egret Island—amid the gorgeous marshlands and tidal creeks—she becomes drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk who is mere months from taking his final vows. What transpires will unlock the roots of her mother’s tormented past, but most of all, as Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it, she will find a freedom that feels overwhelmingly right. What inspires the yearning for a soul mate? Few writers have explored, as Kidd does, the lush, unknown region of the feminine soul where the thin line between the spiritual and the erotic exists. The Mermaid Chair is a vividly imagined novel about the passions of the spirit and the ecstasies of the body; one that illuminates a woman’s self-awakening with the brilliance and power that only a writer of Kidd’s ability could conjure.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8902
- Title
- THE MERMAID CHAIR
- Author
- Kidd, Sue Monk
- Format/Binding
- Cloth and boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670033944
- ISBN 13
- 9780670033942
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- love, home, family, men, women, bees, girl, adolescence, the South, mothers, daughters
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Borg Antiquarian
Biblio member since 2015
Lake Forest, Illinois
About Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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