Buy this book on-line Brooks, Geraldine : The Secret ChordViking Press, New York City, NY, 2015 ISBN 0670025771
First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 302 pages. The author's fifth novel. One of Geraldine Brooks' finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Geraldine Brooks' "The Secret Chord". A deeply moving re-imagination of King David. "Brooks is a master at bringing the past alive. In her skillful hands, the issues of The Past echo our own deepest concerns: Love and loss, drama and tragedy, chaos and brutality" (Alice Hoffmann). Her novel is a literary attempt to restore in full what we have heard - and has been written, in bits and pieces - about the lost Book of Nathan, and brilliantly casts King David in a whole new light for our time as only Geraldine Brooks can: Together with (rather than apart from) its sexually very explicit passages, "the picture that emerges is dramatic. Brooks also misses no opportunity to darken our view of the King of Israel, recasting his infatuation with Batsheva as a matter of rape rather than seduction. She renders David's character with complexity and shows how his flaws and hard-heartedness nonetheless make him a terrifyingly effective ruler" (The New Yorker Magazine Best Books of The Year). An absolute "must-have" title for Geraldine Brooks collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Geraldine Brooks. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title will become a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2006 for "March". One of the finest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER GERALDINE BROOKS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0670025771. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Brooks, Geraldine : The Secret Chord. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres illustrées, out-of-print books, libri antichi, libri rari and rare books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |