The Tree That Survived the Winter

Paulist Pr, 1990-03-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Paulist Press [Published Date: 1990]. Hardcover,[64] (unnumbered) pages. No other printings listed. Very good in very good dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with copper lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and tears and light creasing along edges. light overall scuffing and faint soiling to jacket as well. NOT price clipped. Now in an archival-quality Brodart Cover NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Lovely artwork by Emil Antonucci (1929-2006), a New York-based artist, graphic artist, book designer, illustrator, publisher, and teacher. Upon graduating from The Cooper Union in 1950—where he was taught by artists, calligraphers, and designers Paul Standard, Philip Grushkin, and George Salter—Antonucci began working as a freelance illustrator and book designer for publishers such as Sheed & Ward, Charles Scribner’s Sons, and Harper & Brothers. Antonucci also contributed prominent graphics to public space throughout New York City, including neighborhood and district logos, information kiosks, maps, and other signage, including the famous Four Seasons Restaurant logo. His work, influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement typographer and printmaker Eric Gill, has been described as "soft modernism." [From front jacket flap] Winter was over. The dark time was past. At first the tree was overcome with joy in the realization that it had survived. In the fragrant air and moist earth of springtime, the tree at last could grow. Eventually, however, the tree had to deal with bitter memories of hardships endured, of being forgotten and left to suffer alone. It wasn't enough to survive. It was necessary to look at the past and find meaning in it. From the vantage point of summer, the tree was able to see the winter experience as if for the first time. Mary Fahy has written an adult fable that wUl speak to anyone who has ever come through a difficult time in life. It is a book for survivors who, on the other side of suffering, have found joy, new self-esteem and compassion for others.