Hepinstall, Kathy
The House of Gentle Men
: New YorkNew York: Bard/Avon Books/HarperCollins Publishers/Harper Collins, 2000, . . , , Hard Cover. First Edition. Octavo--from 7?" to 9?" tall. 1st printing w/complete number sequence. Author's first novel. The story of a sixteen-year-old who is raped by three soldiers, who becomes pregnant from the violation and nine months later abandons the issue to the elements. Years later she becomes one of a group of "sad, damaged, overworked and unappreciated women" who make their way to a place where they receive "the solace and chaste kindness they so desperately crave, administered by haunted men wishing to atone for the crimes in their pasts." It will surprise no one to learn that one of those haunted men is one of the soldiers who raped her. Avocado and blue boards w/gilt spine lettering, 341 pages, dust jacket illustration by Gustave Dore. An unread copy. (A word about our grading: Fine -- or, sometimes, As New -- is our highest grade, and it's down from there. "Mint" is a word referring to a delightful flavour or an imposing edifice where coins are produced. It may be acceptable where baseball cards or comic books or coins and the like are concerned, but it has no place in the terminology and protocols of the book world. Never has. No place whatsoever. None. Zero.); . , , , .
$12.50
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