An epic fantasy set in an imaginary time and place, Caracole recounts the experiences of a teenager as he tastes, for the first time, the privileged passions of adulthood. From the author of A Boy's Own Story.
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An epic fantasy set in an imaginary time and place, Caracole recounts the experiences of a teenager as he tastes, for the first time, the privileged passions of adulthood. From the author of A Boy's Own Story.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 9x5x1; First edition. A clean & straight copy in like jacket. Text and images unmarked. Dust jacket in a mylar cover. 342 pp.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition (stated). An epic fantasy and sci-fi novel of a young man reaching adulthood amid the varous perils of his strange metropolis-a city under an odd occupation regime-and filled with many interesting and strange characters. Hardcover with dust jacket, 342pp. A very nice copy. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
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Near Fine in Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Price NOT clipped, DJ nicely in archival wraps. Stated first edition and first numberline printing. Minimal shelf wear; interior clean and free of writing; pages fresh.
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Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 0525242813. Tight bright book with name to front endpaper; in bright DJ.; 1.2 x 9.3 x 5.9 Inches; 342 pages; In French caracole means "prancing"; in English, "caper." Both words perfectly describe this high-spirited erotic adventure. In Caracole, White invents an entire world where country gentry languish in decaying mansions and foppish intellectuals exchange lovers and gossip in an occupied city that resembles both Paris under the Nazis and 1980s New York. To that city comes Gabriel, an awkward boy from the provinces whose social naïveté and sexual ardor make him endlessly attractive to a variety of patrons and paramours."A seduction through language, a masque without masks, Caracole brings back to startling life a dormant strain in serious American writing: the idea of the romantic."--Cynthia Ozick.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Near Fine in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear; age-toning on the edges. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has minimal handling wear. First Edition, First Printing. In French caracole means "prancing"; in English, "caper." Both words perfectly describe this high-spirited erotic adventure. In Caracole, White invents an entire world where country gentry languish in decaying mansions and foppish intellectuals exchange lovers and gossip in an occupied city that resembles both Paris under the Nazis and 1980s New York. To that city comes Gabriel, an awkward boy from the provinces whose social naïveté and sexual ardor make him endlessly attractive to a variety of patrons and paramours.