The Little Shadows (Signed, lined and dated Canadian First Printing)
Language: English
Published by Doubleday Canada, Toronto, ON, 2011
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
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Seller: West End Editions, Burlington, ON, CanadaWest End Editions
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AS NEW, unread copy of the Canadian FIRST EDITION. FIRST PRINTING. SIGNED and DATED, "Oct 30, 2011 - IFOA" in Toronto on the title page. Marina Endicott has also written with her signature, from the first sentence of the book, "A summer evening." The book is flawless; only opened for signing by the author. A unique, collectible copy.
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- Title
- The Little Shadows (Signed, lined and dated Canadian First Printing)
- Author
- Endicott, Marina
- Publisher
- Doubleday Canada, Toronto, ON
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0385668910
- ISBN 13
- 9780385668910
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Here is the eagerly anticipated new novel from a brilliant writer whose last book, Good to a Fault, was shortlisted for the prestigious Giller Prize and won the Commonwealth Prize for Canada and the Caribbean.
The Little Shadows revolves around three sisters in the world of vaudeville before and during the First World War. We follow the lives of all three in turn: Aurora, the eldest and most beautiful, who is sixteen when the book opens; thoughtful Clover, a year younger; and the youngest sister, joyous headstrong sprite Bella, who is thirteen. The girls, overseen by their fond but barely coping Mama, are forced to make their living as a singing act after the untimely death of their father. They begin with little besides youth and hope, but Marina Endicott’s genius is to show how the three girls slowly and steadily evolve into true artists even as they navigate their way to adulthood among a cast of extraordinary characters – some of them charming charlatans, some of them unpredictable eccentrics, and some of them just ordinary-seeming humans with magical gifts.
Using her gorgeous prose and extraordinary insight, Endicott lures us onto the brightly lit stage and then into the little shadows that lurk behind the curtain, and reveals how the art of vaudeville -- in all its variety, madness, melodrama, hilarity and sorrow -- echoes the art of life itself.
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West End Editions
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