Being Fishkill.
Language: English
Published by Candlewick Press,, Somerville, Mass., USA:, 2017
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Seller: Chapel Books, Westleton, SFK, United KingdomChapel Books
AbeBooks seller since September 30, 1999
Condition: Used - Fine
US$ 62.00
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312pp. As new, unread copy, unmarked. In the publisher's black paper-covered boards, spine titled green. Corners sharp, spine ends slightly blunted. In the protected unclipped (unpriced) pictorial dust jacket: unmarked and crisp, with a minuscule pucker to the head of the lower joint. 'Poet Ruth Lehrer's young adult fiction debut is a stunning, revelatory look at what defines and sustains "family".' Brilliant copy. First edition, with complete number line.
Seller Inventory # 20171050
- Title
- Being Fishkill.
- Author
- Ruth Lehrer:
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press,, Somerville, Mass., USA:
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0763684422
- ISBN 13
- 9780763684426
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction: 20th-21stC Fiction;
Born in the backseat of a moving car, Carmel Fishkill was unceremoniously pushed into a world that refuses to offer her security, stability, love. At age thirteen, she begins to fight back. Carmel Fishkill becomes Fishkill Carmel, who deflects her tormenters with a strong left hook and conceals her secrets from teachers and social workers. But Fishkill’s fierce defenses falter when she meets eccentric optimist Duck-Duck Farina, and soon they, along with Duck-Duck’s mother, Molly, form a tentative family, even as Fishkill struggles to understand her place in it. This fragile new beginning is threatened by the reappearance of Fishkill’s unstable mother — and by unfathomable tragedy. Poet Ruth Lehrer’s young adult debut is a stunning, revelatory look at what defines and sustains “family.” And, just as it does for Fishkill, meeting Duck-Duck Farina and her mother will leave readers forever changed.
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Chapel Books
Westleton, SFK, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since September 30, 1999
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The bookshop is in a former Primitive Methodist Chapel in the centre of Westleton, opposite the post office stores and backing on to the duck pond. I moved here in 1977 and have been selling books since 1982, and it has become a favourite destination for many visitors to the area. Since 1999 I have been listing a small part of my stock online, through abe and my own website at chapelbooks.com . We are open 7 days a week, 12 to 5, often longer in summer, and with rare exceptions in winter. We welcome telephone enquiries: try at any time - we are often here outside shop hours. There are more than 10,000 books on the shelves, in all subject areas, from 50p to £100, with rarer books in reserve. We also sell vinyl (LPs). We regret that access for wheelchair users is limited. The premises are unheated. The turning to Westleton is about quarter of a mile north of Yoxford on the A12. Buses are rarely seen here. The nearest rail station is Darsham (3 miles). People have been known to look for us in Saxmundham: it is our 'post town' but it is 7 miles away. With Aldeburgh to the south and Southwold to the north, this area is rich in a quiet and unmountainous beauty, excellent walking and cycling country. Heathland, forest, and the RSPB reserve at Minsmere are on the doorstep. The lost city of Dunwich is 3 miles away: as, at present, is the North Sea which took it.…
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I am Robert Jackson, a sole trader, trading as Chapel Books, at The Chapel, Westleton, Saxmundham, Suffolk IP17 3AA. All enquiries should be addressed to me at bob@chapelbooks.com or at the above address. Payments can be made by card (American Express, Visa, Mastercard, etc), Bank transfer, or PayPal. I also accept sterling cheques drawn on a British bank. Non-Sterling cheques and Sterling cheques drawn on non-UK banks incur a conversion charge of £10.
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