EVERY ISLAND FLED AWAY

Sanford, John [John B., 1904-2003]

Published by W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1964

About this Item

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 8vo. 187p. Salmon colored paper over boards with a tan cloth spine with black and red letters on the spine and a vignette in black on the front cover of an eagle in flight with an arrow in its talons. Jacket design by Larry Lurin. Black and white photo of Sanford on the rear turn-in of the dust jacket. No noticeable wear to extremities, covers clean and bright, else fine with no internal markings. Dust jacket has a few wear spots around the edges, else near fine and not price-clipped. Born Julian Lawrence Shapiro, John Sanford or John B. Sanford, was an American screenwriter and author who wrote 24 books. A one-time member of the Communist Party, after he and his wife Marguerite Roberts refused to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee, they were blacklisted and unable to work in Hollywood for nearly a decade. EVERY ISLAND FLED AWAY is his seventh novel and "tells the story of Carlo Pierce, a minister in a small California coast town, a man tortured by memory and doubt, uneasy with himself and the rest of the world. Pierce speaks out against the avarice, depravity, and corruption of his parishioners. He pleads for Matt Dana, a young man called up to fight and perhaps to die in a useless war. But the townspeople demand Dana as a sacrifice for their own sins." [from the dust jacket]. Seller Inventory # 007024

Bibliographic Details

Title: EVERY ISLAND FLED AWAY

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, New York

Publication Date: 1964

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Edition: 1st Edition