Charleston [SIGNED]

Thornton, Margaret Bradham

Published by Ecco / an Imprint of Harper Collins, New York, 2014

About this Item

New condition gray boards/red spine/silver spine lettering contained in a new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Dedication; Acknowledgments; and Author's Note. Illustrated with a painting frontispiece by "Alfred Hutty, Magnolia Gardens (1920), Gibbs Museum of Art". Signed by the author with thin blue Sharpie on the full title page. "In the tradition of great Southern novels, this lyrical tale explores the emotional terrain of love, loss, and memory. It's about the tug of a person and of a place, leading us to confront what it means to look homeward again." - Walter Isaacson, author. "Margaret Thornton, in this beautiful novel, immerses us in a world, Charleston, a place both charmed and vexed by its many-layered history. A city where every house has its provenance and story, where Eliza dares to return and walk the cobbled streets with her lost love. Here is that rare thing: a good man who knows birds and can also cook, and who actually tries to explain why he didn't write that important letter. Eliza's short, sharp season of happiness forms a complete love story - lush, bittersweet, and dear." - Ron Carlson, author. "A gifted writer makes her fiction debut with this lyrical and haunting story of missed chances and enduring love, set against the backdrop of high society Charleston, which asks the eternal question: Can we ever truly go home again? When Eliza Poinsett left the elegant world of Charleston for college, she never expected it would take her ten years to return. Now she is an art historian in London with a charming Etonian boyfriend who adores her. But the past catches up with her when she runs into Henry, a former boyfriend from Charleston, at a wedding in the English countryside. Already unnerved by the earlier encounter, Eliza's carefully guarded equilibrium is shattered when she meets Henry again in Charleston, where she's come for her stepsister's debut, a decade after she first left. Set against a backdrop of stately homes, the seductive Lowcountry landscape, and the entangled lives of families who trace their ancestors back for generations, Charleston hinges on Eliza's difficult choice: must she risk everything for which she has worked so hard to be with the only man she has ever truly loved? Charleston is an evocative, melancholy novel about one woman's love - for both a man and an unforgettable city. Emotionally resonant, beguiling in its atmosphere, it illuminates the elusive notion of home, and explores whether we can ever truly go back to the place - and the people - that indelibly shaped us." - from the inner front jacket flap. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Margaret Bradham Thornton is the editor of Tennessee Williams' Notebooks, for which she received the Bronze ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award for Autobiography/Memoir and the C. Hugh Holman Prize for the best volume of southern literary scholarship, given by the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. She is a native of Charleston, a graduate of Princeton University, and currently resides in Palm Beach, Florida. Seller Inventory # 002552

Bibliographic Details

Title: Charleston [SIGNED]

Publisher: Ecco / an Imprint of Harper Collins, New York

Publication Date: 2014

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Dust Jacket Condition: New

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition