Kate Vaiden
by Reynolds Price
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0689117876
- ISBN 13
- 9780689117879
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Scribner, 1986. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and green cloth boards. Light wear to top stain. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($16.95) with a quarter-inch closed tear to the bottom back flap and light wear to the tips. Protected in a Brodart Mylar cover. 306 pages. 6¼ x 9½" tall.
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Kate Vaiden is a penetrating psychological portrait of an ordinary woman in extraordinary circumstances, a story as joyous, tragic, comic, and compelling as life itself. We meet Kate at a crucial moment in middle age when she begins to yearn to see the son she abandoned when she was seventeen. But if she decides to seek him, will he understand her?
Synopsis
Kate Vaiden is a novel by Reynolds Price about a white woman from the American South who, after a teenage pregnancy, abandons her son shortly after giving birth to him and who does not get in touch with him for four decades.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4403
- Title
- Kate Vaiden
- Author
- Reynolds Price
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0689117876
- ISBN 13
- 9780689117879
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1986
- Pages
- 306
- Size
- 6.25 x 9.5
- Keywords
- national book award
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions;
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