Random Winds (Signed First Edition)
Language: English
Published by Delacorte Press, New York, 1980
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
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Condition: Used
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First edition, first printing. Hardcover. A novel from the author of "Evergreen" and numerous other books. A near fine copy with a slight lean to the binding in a near fine dust jacket with a small tear and associated crease to the bottom of the rear panel. Signed by Plain on the title page.
Seller Inventory # 172758
- Title
- Random Winds (Signed First Edition)
- Author
- PLAIN, Belva
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press, New York
- Publication year
- 1980
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Signed
- Signed
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0440071240
- ISBN 13
- 9780440071242
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 2 pounds
- Seller catalogs
- Literature
The story moves from a turn-of-the-century village in upstate New York to privileged estates outside London, from the bedsides of the rural poor to the frenetic emergency room of a New York hospital, from war-torn London to hideaways on the French Riviera. It tells of the trials and triumphs of a dynamic family struggling to hold its center, and of love beyond anyone's power to deny.
"Belva Plain creates vivid people and involves us with them. She is at the top of the novelist's profession." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Before becoming a novelist, Belva Plain wrote short stories for many major magazines, but taking care of a husband and three children did not give her the time to concentrate on the novel she had always wanted to write. When she looked back and said she didn't have the time, she felt as though she had been making excuses. In retrospect, she said, "I didn't make the time." But, she reminded us, during the era that she was raising her family, women were supposed to concentrate only on their children. Today 30 million copies of her books are in print.
A Barnard College graduate who majored in history, Belva Plain enjoyed a wonderful marriage of more than 40 years to Irving Plain, an ophthalmologist. Widowed for more than 25 years, Ms. Plain continued to reside in New Jersey, where she and her husband had raised their family and which was still home to her nearby children and grandchildren until her death in October 2010.
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Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
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