Black Sun
by Abbey, Edward
First edition
Price: $250.00
- Bookseller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
- Seller Inventory #: 11878
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0671208969
- ISBN 13: 9780671208967
- Publisher: Simon and Schuster
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1971
Book Description
New York Simon and Schuster 1971 Hardcover First edition 159pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black cloth. Near fine/Near fine. The author's fourth novel. A fictional account of the author's time spent as a fire lookout on the north rim of the grand canyon. Abbey blends both the dying of his wife in a New Jersey hospital, and one Carol Turner, who disappeared into Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument into this bittersweet love story. Abbey himself proclaimed this to be his favorite of his books ( I don't believe him) and Utah author Terry Tempest Williams once claimed that her grandmother in a private audience, stated the same.
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