Quinn's Book

By
William Kennedy

Viking Penguin, Inc.
New York
May 1988

A portion of this book first appeared in Esquire
[12], 289 p.: Illustrated title page and 3 other full-page illustrations, 2 of which are courtesy of the Bettmann Archive; 23.5 cm. (9.25 inches). Black cloth spine with gilt-stamped spine title, dark blue paper over boards, with gilt-stamped front-cover facsimile signature of the author. Glossy, color illustrated dust jacket, featuring painting: "View of Albany, New York, from Greenbush, 1851". Top page edges red. Grey endpapers.
First Edition

"Quinn's Book is the narration by Daniel Quinn, orphan, of his adventure-ridden quest for true love and the answer to the elusive riddle of his own fate. On one cataclysmic day in Albany in 1849, the fourteen-year-old Quinn rescues the wondrous Maud Fallon from an icy drowning in the flood-swollen Hudson during an ill-advised crossing with her aunt and guardian, the actress-courtesan Magdalena Colón. This will set in motion a decade and a half's procession across a crowded canvas of Albany's (and America's) history - the rise and fall of upstate Dutch dynasties, kidnappings and murders, the human traffic of the underground railroad, pitched battles between the immigrant Irish and nativist Americans, vast oligarchical conspiracies, grand theatrical productions, sanguinary Civil War conflicts, and vicious draft riots - all related with the full-throated rhetorical gusto of the day" [from the dust jacket]

ISBN: 0670804371

Book is in Fine/As New Condition: pages clean, bright, tight, and unmarked.
Dust Jacket is in Very Good Plus Condition: top corner of back section wrinkled; back section also with closed tear.

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