A geologist in Alaska decides he must return home to Europe, a writer explores a mountain painted by Cezanne, and a man and his young daughter work out their own concept of family life
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Da: Fleur Fine Books, Port Neches, TX, U.S.A.
HARDCOVER. Condizione: Used; Good. First Edition. Used; Good. Farrar Straus Giroux 1985 Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Previous owner's name on front free end page. Several pages have light pencil underlining which does not obscure text. Jacket has light wear. Book Condition; Good Jacket Condition; Good . 1985. First Edition. HARDCOVER. Codice articolo 9780374266356
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Da: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Product Description A geologist in Alaska decides he must return home to Europe, a writer explores a mountain painted by Cezanne, and a man and his young daughter work out their own concept of family life Excerpt. ? Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Slow HomecomingThe Long Way AroundThen, as I stumbled headlong down the path, there was suddenly a form .One /The Primordial FormsSorger had outlived several of those who had become close to him; he had ceased to long for anything, but often felt a selfless love of existence and at times a need for salvation so palpable that it weighed on his eyelids. Capable of a tranquil harmony, a serene strength that could transfer itself to others, yet too easily wounded by the power of facts, he knew desolation, wanted responsibility, and was imbued with the search for forms, the desire to differentiate and describe them, and not only out of doors ("in the field"), where this often tormenting but sometimes gratifying and at its best triumphant activity was his profession.At the end of the working day, in the light-gray gabled wooden house at the edge of the mainly Indian settlement in the Far North of the other continent, which for some months had been serving him and his colleague Lauffer as both laboratory and dwelling, he slipped the protective covers on the microscopes and binoculars he had been using alternately and, his face still distorted by the frequent changes from short view to long view and back, passed through the episodic space created by the sunset light and the hovering woolly-white seeds of the dwarf poplars, an after-work corridor, as it were, to "his" beach.A clay platform so low that he could have jumped off. There began the immense realm of the glittering river, extending to the whole circle of the horizon, flooding the continental shelf from east to west and at the same time meandering northward and southward through the sparsely settled but to all intents and purposes uninhabited lowlands. Narrowed, because it was the dry season and the glaciers had stopped melting, behind first a broad bank of gravel and shale and then a muddy slope, the river at Sorger's feet sent long, light sea waves beating against the land.Another thing that made the valley look like a body of standing water was that it reached out to the horizon on all sides but that, because of the river's meanderings, the lines of the horizon were formed not by streams flowing from east to west but by dry land, by the banks of that bend in the river surmounted by dwarf poplars and the tops of primeval conifers, which, though in reality sparse and stunted, seemed from a distance to form serried files.True, this apparent lake, bounded on all sides by land that looked to be flat, flowed at a speed hard to estimate, silently and quite smoothly except for the bathtub-like lapping of the waves on the muddy beach--one might have said a foreign body, filling the entire plain, mirrored yellow by the sunset sky, perceptible at first glance only as wetness, dotted here and there with island specks and sandbanks, they too lying flat in the hazy evening air. Only the eddies that formed over unseen depressions in the sand-and-gravel riverbed, swiftly circling funnels in the otherwise metallic yellow surface, were not yellow but, because of their sharper angle to the sky, a remote daylight blue from within which, amid the almost silent flow, soft brooklike gurglings could be heard.Sorger was buoyed by the thought that the months he had spent observing this wilderness, learning (approximately) its forms and their genesis, had made it his own private domain. Destructive as they may have been (and still were) in the objective world, the forces that went to make up this landscape, in becoming present to him along with the great flowing water, its eddies and rapids, without mental effort, through the perceptive process alone, were transformed by their own laws into. Codice articolo AMPLE0374266352
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Da: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. Stated first edition. Foxing on top and fore edges, else very good in a very good (foxing on verso) dust jacket. Codice articolo 103964
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Da: ShiroBooks, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: USED_NEARFINE. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition. NF / VG+. 1st Printing of the 1985 FSG stated 1st US Edition thus, translated by Ralph Manheim. Book is straight, square, tightly and evenly bound and free of any markings, blemishes or gutter creasing; Cover is clean and bright, with sharp corners and joints, gently bumped headcap and tail, straight spine, hinges and edges, and boldly legible, crisply distinct lettering and design. Dust Jacket is unclipped (reflecting original USD 16.95 net price) and mildly age toned, with minor bumping at the head, tail and edges - none which impair legibility of lettering or clarity of design, artwork or Author image. (Please see Seller images.) DJ shows SBN 374266352. ShiroBooks, independent bookseller, takes pride in accurate descriptions, careful wrapping and safe shipping; please contact ShiroBooks PRIOR TO ORDERING if more information, details or photos are needed. Codice articolo 005903
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Da: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Condizione: Good. Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting. 1.58. Codice articolo 0374266352-2-4
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Condizione: Good. Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within 1.58. Codice articolo bk0374266352xvz189zvxgdd
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Da: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Condizione: Very Good. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 1.58. Codice articolo 0374266352-2-3
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Da: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. First American Edition. Publisher: Farrar Strauss Giroux, New York, 1985. FINE hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. First US Edition, First Printing. Pristine. As new. Unread. Codice articolo 2209080014
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