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Book Condition: Used Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
ISBN: 0679410341 / 9780679410348
Seller: Bytown Bookery

Canada
About Item: Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 0679410341 . Burgundy cloth covers with gilt titles to the spine. Very Good ++ with a tight binding and a bright, unmarked interior. Very light spine end bumping. The DJ is unclipped, in Very Good condition with light cover rubbing & edgewear. A few dots of foxing to the top fore edge. "Bestselling writer Gay Talese uses his own family history to tell the epic story of an Italian family over three generations. Moving from a tiny feudal village in southern Italy to the battlefields of the First World War, to Paris in the 1920s, and finally to the promised land of America, Unto the Sons is a brilliant mixture of history and story-telling. Talse carries us into the nineteenth- century patriarchal world of his great-grandfather in the village of Maida (after which London's Maida Vale was named) - a region immersed in the mysticism of the Church and haunted by echoes of Roman glory and the subsequent waves… Read More
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