Walker Mildred 1905 1998 (3 results)

Hardcover_boards. Condition: Very Good. 5.5"x8.25" 339 pgs. BCE/BOMC Black boards w/gold letters on spine. Red faded painted top edge. POI inside front boards and ffep. Spine straight, binding tight, pages soft tone. Not x-library, no DJ. Moderate shelf and edge wear. In this family saga, generations mine the Vermont earth and come to rest in it. Lyman Converse is too young to fight in the Civil War, but he lives to see his own son enlist in World War I. Through all the years his closest friend is Easy, an escaped black slave who took refuge in his father's house. Everything Converse values most is gradually lost to time, including the family-owned soapstone quarry. The Quarry invites readers to escape into private lives worth caring about-and to feel the national history that they could not escape. Originally published in 1947 and considered one of Mildred Walker's richest novels, The Quarry is introduced by Ripley Hugo, Walker's daughter. Hugo edited, with James Welch, The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet's Autobiography by Richard Hugo. Source: Publisher. …

Book club edition. Walker's third novel, the Literary Guild selection for January 1938, a book which was praised on its appearance for its quite portrayal of a loving marriage strained by invalidism. "[A] disturbing book. . . . For those who are interested in the world of unuttered thoughts, Dr. NortonÕs Wife will prove an absorbing study." (New York Times) 269 pp. Ex-library but with relatively few markings, and overall tight and clean in salmon colored cloth, spine label, some rubbing and wear to covers, no dust jacket. …

Tela. Condition: Bien. Sin Sobrecubierta. 1st ed. 144 p., il. bl. y n. -- Falto de sobrecub. y con firma en port. Hallock, Robert (illustrator).