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Claire of the Sea Light / Edwidge Danticat.
LIBRA - Rare PS3554.A5815 C57 2014 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- author.
- Series:
- Vintage contemporaries
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Missing children--Fiction.
- Missing children.
- City and town life.
- Haiti.
- City and town life--Haiti--Fiction.
- Secrecy--Fiction.
- Secrecy.
- Haiti--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 14 unnumbered pages, 238 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First Vintage Contemporaries edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, A Division of Random House LLC, 2014.
- Summary:
- The interconnected secrets of a coastal Haitian town are revealed when one little girl, the daughter of a fisherman, runs away.
- Contents:
- Part One. Claire of the sea light; The frogs; Ghosts; Home
- Part Two. Starfish; Anniversary; Di Mwen, tell me; Claire de Lune.
- Notes:
- "First Vintage Contemporaries edition, July 2014."
- "Cover Design: Chin-Yee Lai. Cover Photography: Carl Juste."
- "Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House LLC, New York, in 2013"--Title page verso.
- Publisher's advertisements: [1] page at end.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has [4] leaves of discussion questions laid in.
- Banks Collection copy has ms. annotations.
- ISBN:
- 0307472272
- 9780307472274
- OCLC:
- 863596166
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