Near-New copy - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - "Growing up on his family's orchards in Appleton

Near-new condition - NO remainder marks or price clippings - Price inside dustcover: $25.00 - 460 pages - NO writing, marks or tears - Tight spine - Bright pages - - The Fall of a Sparrow examines the reawakening of life after a young woman has tragically died. At the heart of the novel is Alan Woodhull ("Woody"), a classics professor at a small midwestern college, whose beloved oldest daughter, Cookie, is killed during a terrorist bombing in Italy. Seven years after the bombing, Woody finds himself standing in the cemetery where Cookie is buried, convinced that life has taught him all the lessons he has to learn. His wife has left him, and his two remaining daughters have grown up and moved away. Yet a new life, which Woody both longs for and resists, begins with his decision to attend the trial of the terrorists responsible for his daughter's death. And as Woody gradually emerges from his sorrow, returning to Italy and the scene of the tragedy, he also awakens to new love.

SIGNED / AUTOGRAPHED by author - Nice gift inscription in book front - by author - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Tight spine - Bright pages - 369 pages - "Mud angels" is what the Italians call the selfless young foreigners who come to Florence in 1966 to save the city's priceless art from the Arno's flooded riverbanks. Margot Harrington is an American volunteer, an expert at book conservancy. While struggling to save a waterlogged convent library, she discovers a fabulous volume of sixteen erotic drawings by Giulio Romano that accompany sixteen steamy sonnets by Pietro Aretino. When published more than four centuries earlier, the Vatican had insisted all copies be destroyed. This one - now unique - volume has survived. The abbess, with wonderful aplomb, prevails upon Margot to save the order's finances by selling the magnificently illustrated erotica, discreetly. Meaning: without the bishop's knowledge. The young American's other clandestine project is a middle-aged Italian who is boldly trying radical measures to save endangered frescoes. She is 29 and available; he, older and married. He shares her sense of mission and then her bed in this ambrosial story of spiritual longing and earthly desire.

1st Printing. 9.56 x 6.34 x 1.31 Crisp Tight Clean copy ! 464 pages. 7998

6.9 x 5.2 x 0.9 Nice Tight Clean copy ! 369 pages. 7935

Livro em bom estado

Advance Reading Copy (Presented as draft manuscript in soft wrappers) Very good condition (tiny fold to front top corner, sticker of literary agent on front cover, with note on fep detailing sale of book rights to Headline). An interesting final book, it is fascinating to see the revisions made by the author in this manuscript version