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River, Cross My Heart.
Clarke, Breena. [jacket design, Leslie Goldman; photos, Jane Yeomans, Miriam Berkeley; book design, Melodie Wertelet]
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing ; viii, 245 p. ; 22 cm. ; ISBN: 0316144231; LCCN: 99-12672 ; OCLC: 40683410 ; LC: PS3553.L298; Dewey: 813/.54 ; grey cloth with white lettering, in photographic dustjacket ; "Six-year old Clara Bynum is dead, drowned in the Potomac Ri…ver in the shadow of an apparently haunted rock outcropping known locally as the Three Sisters. In scenes alive with emotional truth, River Cross My Heart weighs the effect of Clara's absence on the people she has left behind: her parent s, Alice and Willie Bynum, torn between the old world of their rural North Carolina home and the new world of the city, to which they have moved in search of a better life for themselves and their children, the friends and family of the Bynum family in the Georgetown neighborhood the now call home; and most especially, Clara's sister, Johnnie Mae, who must come to terms with the powerful and confused emotions sparked by her sister's death as she struggles to decide and discover the kind of woman she will become."--dustjacket ; author's first novel ; FINE/FINE. Book.
