White Sands, Red Menace (signed in Hebrew)

Klages, Ellen

ISBN 10: 0670062359 / ISBN 13: 9780670062355

Published by Viking / Penguin Group, New York, 2008

About this Item

A companion volume to the multi-award-winning 'The Green Glass Sea.' This copy signed by Klages in Hebrew on title page. According to the author, she has signed very few copies in Hebrew. This copy comes with a 5.5" x 4.25" promotional card (bears the dust jacket illustration on one side, and title/author name/publisher information on reverse) laid in. Red boards w/white spine lettering, 337 pages (plus author's notes, acknowledgments and brief biography). Gently bumped corners/spine ends, remainder stripe across bottom edge, in dust jacket w/light scuffing, gentle bump to bottom spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 016886

Bibliographic Details

• Title: White Sands, Red Menace (signed in Hebrew)
• Publisher: Viking / Penguin Group, New York
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670062359
• ISBN 13: 9780670062355
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Christian Funfhausen (dust jacket illustration)
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Children--Young Adult
  • Signed (all categories)

About this title

Synopsis

It is 1946, and the events of The Green Glass Sea have changed the world?and Dewey Kerrigan?s life. She?s now living near the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico with the Gordon family. Dr. Gordon is working on rockets that will someday go to the moon; Mrs. Gordon is working on stopping the Bomb. Meanwhile, Dewey and her ?sister,? Suze, share secrets, art, and science as they adjust to high school in an isolated desert town. Then, like a different kind of dropped bomb, Dewey?s long-lost mother, Rita Gallucci, reappears in their lives. And she wants to take her daughter away.

About the Author

Ellen Klages was born a in Columbus, Ohio. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Philosophy.

“It teaches you to ask questions and think logically, which are useful skills for just about any job.” she says. “But when I looked in the Want Ads under P, no philosophers. I’ve been a pinball mechanic, a photographer, and done paste-up for a printer.

“I’ve lived in San Francisco most of my adult life. The city wears its past in layers, glimpses of other eras visible on every street. I love to look through old newspapers and photos, trying to piece together its stories.

“I was at the Exploratorium, a hands-on science museum, working as proofreader, when they were looking for a science writer to do a children’s science activity book. No science background, but I convinced my boss that in order to ‘translate’ from a PhD physicist, I had to ask lots of questions, just like a curious kid. I got the job.

“My desk was covered with baking soda, Elmer’s glue, balloons, soap bubbles, and dozens of other common objects that became experiments, and the office echoed with the ‘Science-at-Home’ team saying, ‘Wow! Look at this!’

“My co-writer, Pat Murphy, a science-fiction author, encouraged me to write stories of my own. I’ve now sold more than a dozen. “Basement Magic,” a fairy tale set at the beginning of the Space Age, won the Nebula Award in 2005.

The Green Glass Sea is not science fiction, but it is fiction about science. And history and curiosity.”

Ellen Klages lives in San Francisco. The Green Glass Sea is her first novel.