In this novel, based on Wescott's own life and family, the young Alwyn Tower leaves Wisconsin to travel in Europe, but finds himself haunted by a family of long-dead spirits--his grandparents and great-uncles and aunts, a generation whose young adulthood was shattered by the Civil War. Their images were preserved in fading family albums of daguerreotypes and in his own fragmented memories of stories told to him by his strong and enduring grandmothers.

Description

Title:   The Grandmothers: A Family Portrait

Author:  Glenway Wescott

Description:   Book has faint spotting along the top edge and front spine edge. Bumping to front corners. Head and tail of spine are lightly bumped. Pages are free of marks and binding is sound. Boards and spine are dark and gilt is bright. Stated first edition with F-B on the copyright page, 1927.

In this novel, based on Wescott's own life and family, the young Alwyn Tower leaves Wisconsin to travel in Europe, but finds himself haunted by a family of long-dead spirits--his grandparents and great-uncles and aunts, a generation whose young adulthood was shattered by the Civil War. Their images were preserved in fading family albums of daguerreotypes and in his own fragmented memories of stories told to him by his strong and enduring grandmothers.

Binding:  Hardcover

Condition: Good*

Jacket Condition:  None                                     

Publisher:  Harper and Brothers

Place: New York

Year: 1927

ISBN:  n/a

Language:  English

Size:  5.5 x 7.5 inches.

Pages:  388 pages.

Keywords:  Harper Prize


The book is in very good to excellent condition, with no book cover, which brings it down to good condition. 

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