Miracle at St. Anna (First Edition)

James McBridge

ISBN 10: 1573222127 / ISBN 13: 9781573222129

Published by Riverhead Books, New York, 2002

About this Item

NEW YORK: Riverhead (2002). First edition, first printing. Hardbound. Near Fine in a fine dust jacket. Slight defect: A few dented pages on lower bottom, 5 or 6 pages. Quarter black cloth over green paper-covered boards, gilt spine lettering. Jacket unclipped with original publisher's price of $24.95 intact. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. 272 pages. Octavo. McBride's debut novel, published after his bestselling memoir "The Color of Water" (1995) and preceding "Song Yet Sung" (2008), centers on four Black American soldiers in WWII Italy who take refuge in a Tuscan village and confront moral and spiritual crises during the war. This book was adapted into a major motion picture of the same name directed by Spike Lee in 2008. McBride went on to win the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction for "The Good Lord Bird.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Miracle at St. Anna (First Edition)
• Publisher: Riverhead Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1573222127
• ISBN 13: 9781573222129
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • African-American LIterature

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Synopsis

In a historical novel based on a real-life massacre at St. Anna Di Stazzema, a small village in Tuscany, during World War II, four African-American soldiers from the 92nd Division, a band of partisans, and a young Italian boy come together to experience a miracle. By the author of The Color of Water. 175,000 first printing.

About the Author

James McBride is an award-winning writer and musician. He has been a staff writer for The Washington Post, People magazine, and The Boston Globe. His memoir and tribute to his mother, The Color of Water, spent more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list, was published worldwide, and was the winner of the prestigious Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. As a composer, he won the American Music Theater Festival's Stephen Sondheim Award for his jazz/pop musical Bobos, and has composed songs for Anita Baker, Grover Washington, Jr., and Gary Burton. A jazz saxophonist, he has performed with Rachelle Farrell and with legendary jazz performer Little Jimmy Scott.