Bridgehampton, NY: Bridge Works Publishing Company, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel set in 1950s Cuba during the Castro Revolution, a story of "adventure and intrigue, of armed struggle and forbidden love, as the Batista dictatorship is overthrown. It also is a story of conscience and idealism succumbing to reality and disillusionment. Father Pedro Villanueva, 34, son of an upper-middle class Havana family, is initially non-political, and more at ease sailing at the elite Havana Yacht Club than performing his priestly duties. Still, he chafes at his church's silence amid the Batista regime's brutality. To free a parishioner's son from La Cabana prison, he and his brother Alberto bribe guards at the prison. The…
Bridgehampton, NY: Bridge Works Publishing Company, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel set in 1950s Cuba during the Castro Revolution, a story of "adventure and intrigue, of armed struggle and forbidden love, as the Batista dictatorship is overthrown. It also is a story of conscience and idealism succumbing to reality and disillusionment. Father Pedro Villanueva, 34, son of an upper-middle class Havana family, is initially non-political, and more at ease sailing at the elite Havana Yacht Club than performing his priestly duties. Still, he chafes at his church's silence amid the Batista regime's brutality. To free a parishioner's son from La Cabana prison, he and his brother Alberto bribe guards at the prison. The prisoner is released, but Pedro's brother is killed during the handover. Pedro joins with the underground to support the Fidelistas fighting in the Sierra Maestra mountains. " Warmly INSCRIBED on the half title page and SIGNED Robert I. Harris. 243 pp. ISBN: 978-0981617558.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories by the author of Morte d'Urban, winner of the 1963 National Book Award. Powers has been called the greatest Catholic writer of the 20th century (although he rejected the label of Catholic writer), one whose writing contrasts the foibles of priestly life with the ideal of what it should stand for. These stories are of the people -laymen and priests, faithful and not-so-faithful - who live in the heartland of America. 190 pp. ISBN: 0-394496086.
Condition: Very near fine in brown cloth with a cream spine and gilt lettering in a like dustjacket (dj folded slightly off-center). Red tinting to top edge bright, original price of 6.95 on dj flap.
ISLAND OF THE WHITE ROSE.
LOOK HOW THE FISH LIVE.
