- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Else Fine Booksellers, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.Else Fine Booksellers
AbeBooks seller since January 27, 2023
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 15.00
Quantity: 1 available
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Minor wear to edges, one or two page corners creased. Clean and sound.
Seller Inventory # 009246
- Title
- Ruth: A Novel
- Author
- Riley, Kate
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0593715942
- ISBN 13
- 9780593715949
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction
Named a Best Book of the Year by Vulture, Marie Claire and Vanity Fair
"I loved RUTH."—Lorde
“It would never work out, but I’m in love with Ruth.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post
“A wonderful, loving, tenderly teasing and often moving portrait … [a] standout.”—Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
“There are inklings of greatness in Kate Riley’s first novel… I suspect it will become an underground classic.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
In this mesmerizing and profound novel, the arc of a woman's life in a devout, insular community challenges our deepest assumptions about what infuses life with meaning.
Ruth is raised in a snow globe of Christian communism, a world without private property, television, or tolerance for idle questions. Every morning she braids her hair and wears the same costume, sings the same breakfast song in a family room identical to every other family room in the community; every one of these moments is meant to be a prayer, but to Ruth they remain puzzles. Her life is seen in glimpses through childhood, marriage, and motherhood, as she tries to manage her own perilous curiosity in a community built on holy mystery. Is she happy? Might this in fact be happiness? Ruth immerses us in an experience that challenges our most fervent beliefs.
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Else Fine Booksellers
Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since January 27, 2023
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| Item | 5 to 14 business days | 3 to 6 business days |
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“Else Fine” is a play on words, perhaps referring to something of value yet slightly worse for wear. It perfectly describes the booksellers at Else Fine, who have been dealing in used and rare books for over 25 years. We specialize in science fiction, interesting ephemera, books on books, radical literature and history, Pacific Northwest Americana, literature, and whatever else catches our eye.
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Else Fine Booksellers
WA, U.S.A.
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