Fine unread or very lightly read first edition/first printing hardcover. Contains full numberline. Light rubbing base edges coverboards, else negligible shelfwear. Dust jacket fine and in protective archival sleeve.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

The Sound of Rattles and Clappers: A Collection of New California Indian Writing

Publisher

University of Arizona Press, Tucson AZ

Publication Date

1994

ISBN 10

0944439462

ISBN 13

9780944439463

Binding

Hardcover/Hardback

Edition

First Edition.

Printing

1st printing

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

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Another good story this by Ernest Finney (Winterchill) in about as handsome a package as is possible with offset and machine binding. We are distressed to learn of Clark City Press's discomfort their editing and bookmaking deserve high success. Get their list now and order all available books while it's possible. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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In a novel spanning the years 1978-1991, Finney ( Winterchill ) considers the thorny question of what role the past should play in the present. The book's 14 chapters, which read like a series of third-person short stories, probe the distinct points of view of three protagonists: placid, boring Billy; his bitter and curt sister, Ann; and their efficient, patronizing cousin, Kay. All three are somewhat lost, grappling as they pass through their 30s with memories incarnated in the fragment of a childhood jump-rope rhyme that gives the book its title. Twice-divorced Billy still optimistically searches for love, widowed Ann struggles with two teenage daughters, and Kay builds a successful business and solves everyone else's problems but lacks a fulfilling life of her own. They have troubled relationships with their aging, far-from-perfect parents, who moved to California from Kansas before the children were born but whose stories of their Midwestern origins fascinate Kay in particular. Finney illuminates life's small moments and the complex nature of family ties with perception and penetration, but his too-faithful rendition of everyday tedium and disappointments may leave readers feeling dispirited.
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