Published by W W Norton & Co, New York, 1991
ISBN 10: 0393028909 ISBN 13: 9780393028904
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 256 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4) bound in original publisher's quarter blue cloth with silver lettering to spine over aqua boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Like William Kennedy's Albany or Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road, Sal La Puma's Bensonhurst, Brroklyn, is full of passionately alive and wayward people. For two hot-blooded Sicilian brothers returning from WWII, it's a time, as the title says, for wedding cake--for whole-souled love and marriage. But within the bonds of family they are buffeted by tragedy, death, betrayal, madness, and accident. Condition: Remainder mark on heal pages else a near fine copy in a fine jacket.