BU3-A hard cover first American edition withdrawn ex-library book in

BU3-A hard cover first American edition withdrawn ex-library book in good-condition with a dust jacket in very good-condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in green paper covered boards quarter bound in burgandy paper with gold lettering and a graphic on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear plus the usual library stamps on the half-title page and top outside paper edges plus the dust jacket endflaps have been glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards plus the front endpaper has been removed as part of the library's withdrawal process. The dust jacket shows only very minor overall shelf wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve with the usual library label on the spine that wraps around onto the back plus the endflaps have been glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale. A novel about a girl trapped working in the cane fields of Martinique. She is later forced to move from her village to the island's politically restive capital where her aunt introduces her to the unsavory business of nightlife among the mulatto elite. The author is a winner of the French Prix Novembre. 169p.

New York. 2000. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in

New York. 2000. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374199329. Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale. 169 pages. hardcover. Jacket art-'Laetitia' by Catherine Theodose. keywords: Literature Caribbean Black Martinique Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Adelise is a girl trapped working in the cane fields of Martinique. Yearning for communication, she confides in the mysterious flowering tree in her backyard; her mother calls her a dragonfly, for she refuses to settle down and learn that life is not a game. When Adelise is forced to move from her village to Fort-de-France, the island's politically restive capital, her aunt introduces her to the unsavory business of nightlife among the mulatto elite, and she comes to rely even more on an elaborate system of detachment from her body. ‘Raphael Confiant has incontestably become a principal character in French literary history, ' a reviewer for Le Monde observed. ‘One is struck by the luminous intelligence of his insights, by the wit of his dialogue, by his soaring lyricism. ' MAMZELLE DRAGONFLY, the first of Confiant's books to be published in English, is a vivid and intimately affecting novel; its spare style is reminiscent of Cristina Garcia's, while its fiercely independent heroine brings to mind those in Edwidge Danticat's fiction, it is a nostalgic and erotic story, and also a sophisticated look at modern Martinique. inventory #28232.

Very Good in wrappers. Advance Ready Copy (ARC).; 8vo 8"-9" tall.

Very Good in wrappers. Advance Ready Copy (ARC).; 8vo 8"-9" tall.