The Keepsake

New York, New York, USA: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. BY2 - A hard cover first American edition withdrawn ex-library book in very good condition with a dust jacket in very good condition. Stated first American edition with a sequence of numbers with the "1" present and with no additional printings indicated. A tight, clean, sound copy in textured white paper covered boards with black lettering and a graphic on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear with the mylar sleeve endflaps glued to the front and back fixed endpapers plus there are the usual library stamps, label, and pocket on the top outside paper edges, the title page, and the back free endpaper plus there is some very light soiling on the top outside paper edges. The dust jacket shows no visible signs of wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A novel about a young girl who has grown up with a mother dependent on storytellinn of tales of deceptive happiness and an inability to cope with the memory of her lost love, the girl's father. As the girl becomes a young woman, she is drawn into and begins to relive the same real story of her mother's pain, abandonment, and tyranny of desire by an older man. By the author of "Rain." 213p.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.