The Country of the Heart

New York: Atheneum. Fine in Near Fine dj. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean book with no discernible wear; the jacket shows just the teensiest bit of wear at several corners]. Young adult fiction about "the grief -- and glory -- of a first love," concerning "a young man's love letter to a woman who is dead: a writer he met when he was eighteen and she was forty. Reconstructing their affair like pieces of a puzzle, Steven Harper portrays the year in his life when he changed from an adolescent into an adult." .