The Permanent Press. Sag Harbor, NY. (1991). First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. As New/As new. 147 pgs. His last novel. An unread crisp copy. F3800.

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Title: The Bookman's Tale
Publisher: Permanent Press, Sag Harbor
Publication Date: 1991
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1877946028
ISBN 13: 9781877946028
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New

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Waiting at the airport on a Caribbean island for his return flight home, Edward Ray looks back on the week he has spent there, a week that has changed his life

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It's appropriate that in this novel's opening scene, the protagonist is watching images shift in a mirrorlike glass, because the book itself is much like an alluring kaleidoscope. Color, light, point of view mutate continually, luring the reader through a seamless narrative toward a stunning climax. Recently widowed Edward Ray, 58, publisher of a small Southern press, sails on a freighter to a Caribbean island in pursuit of a woman he hasn't seen in almost 30 years. As Ray wonders how his odyssey will end, he listens to various passengers relate, a la Chaucer, their "Tales," some with no apparent ending, but all of them about how people lie to others and themselves. After Ray and the much younger woman he's just met witness a native fertility rite on the island, the two spend the night together. The next day he dips into her unpublished novel and his own Tale takes a jarring bounce. Temptingly enigmatic, this brief novel offers stylish, witty observations, with not a word wasted. Fleming ( Colonel Effingham's Raid ) wrote The Bookman's Tale , originally self-published, at the age of 87, three years before his death in 1989.
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