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Redemption (association copy)
by Turner, Frederick (signed); Jim Harrison (inscribed to)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0151014701
- ISBN 13
- 9780151014705
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. An association copy, inscribed to novelist Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall, on the title page in blue ink: "Jimmie, From his devoted friend, Fred, Frederick Turner, Santa Fe, 11/08." Turner and Harrison were longtime friends, and Harrison's blurb graces the back of the jacket: "Frederick Turner's Redemption is an implacable stew of sex and love, vice and violence. Turner is a prose master and also a bear of a very large brain. Rarely do we see a novel on this grand scale of historical perceptiveness . . .." Other blurbs by Jim Fergus and William Kittredge. A novel about a policeman patrolling the underbelly of New Orleans in 1913. Turner is also known for his nonfiction about place, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship among other honors. Near fine with a little bumping to upper corner and top edge of front board; in a very good jacket with rubbing and some modest wear to corners and spine ends. From the library of Jim Harrison in Livingston, Montana.
Synopsis
Francis Muldoon is a special policeman in the notorious Storyville District of New Orleans in 1913. His job is to see that the District’s volatile mixture of sex, alcohol, and gambling doesn’t boil over but instead rolls along at a continuous simmer. Once a member of the city’s regular police force, he now works for the District’s vice lord, Tom Anderson, patrolling his patron’s honky-tonks and saloons and whorehouses—both the high-priced bordellos and the coffinlike cribs where the girls work with only a cot and a washbasin. When Adele, a beautiful singer at the Tuxedo dance hall, draws Francis into a contentious rivalry for her affection, a fatal shootout is the inevitable conclusion, sending the District into a scalding eruption and revealing the central characters for what they are. Filled with the rich atmosphere of America’s most colorful city, Redemption is the powerfully told tale of a man’s efforts to restore the integrity of his soul.
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- Bookseller
- Rural Hours
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1289
- Title
- Redemption (association copy)
- Author
- Turner, Frederick (signed); Jim Harrison (inscribed to)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0151014701
- ISBN 13
- 9780151014705
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2006
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Rural Hours (formerly Wood + River = Books, est. 2019) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, environmental literature, and contemporary essay, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We draw our name from the popular-but-then-forgotten book by Susan Fenimore Cooper (published in 1850), generally considered the first work of environmental creative nonfiction by a woman in the U.S. We are interested in challenging and expanding the canon of environmental literature and finding books that tell remarkable stories and illuminate the tradition of writing about place and natural history.
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