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THE CONCRETE JUDASBIRD
by Mathews, F.X
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Poor
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1968. Stated First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Poor. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Black linen boards/Fine. DJ/Poor; strong w/tattered edges, losses to lower edges, and surface rubs. Bookshop sticker to front cover verso. Fiction. An American story of self-loss and self-discovery. Judas birds is a common name for decoys used to lure, or trap, other birds. There was a concrete Judas bird on the bird bath on the garden of aunt Agnes and uncle Father Joseph who raised orphan, Michael Cassidy --- that is until it was chipped off after having driven a cat crazy. Michael, growing up in an old house at the end of a dead end street, was punished by Aunt Agnes for the smallest of infractions. Novel begins with the death of Aunt Agnes, and Michael overturning 17 tombstones in the cemetery, lifts a wallet, leaves home, takes a job in a zoo, flubs a romantic attempt, goes home again, and accepts the "real existential decision, to work out your salvation with a tool you know is defective", and, recognize false lures in the discovery of where to start on life's course.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016007
- Title
- THE CONCRETE JUDASBIRD
- Author
- Mathews, F.X
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Stated First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Fiction/Novel/America
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