The Hard Blue Sky
by Shirley Ann Grau
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good-
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. NF/VG-. Stated First Edition. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($5.00) with chipping to the spine and corners and lightly sunned spine (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 466 pages. 6 x 8½" tall.
West of New Orleans among a few small Gulf islands lies the Isle aux Chiens, a tiny, impoverished strip of land burdened by intolerable heat and roaming packs of wild dogs. Here a handful of Creole families eke out a meager existence by fishing the Gulf waters. Such is the fate of Al Landry and his seventeen-year-old daughter, Annie. The Hard Blue Sky is Grau's debut novel, establishing her as a chronicler of bayou life and the complexities of the Deep South's most impoverished corners. Winner of the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Keepers of the House.
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4306
- Title
- The Hard Blue Sky
- Author
- Shirley Ann Grau
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1958
- Pages
- 466
- Size
- 6 x 8.5
- Weight
- 3.00 lbs
- Keywords
- southern, creole, Louisiana, grau, debut novel, deep south, southern life
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- First Editions;
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