Edwin O'Connor The Edge of Sadness

Edwin O'Connor

The Edge of Sadness

Little, Brown and Company 1961
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Book Awards and Honours

Award 1962 - Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

TRUE FIRST EDITION. Hardcover with dust jacket . 8vo. [i-x] [1] [2] 3-460 Blank Pages:[461-466] pp. Original publishers gray cloth. Points of issue:
1. States "FIRST EDITION" on the copyright page.
2. The price "$5.00" appears at the top of the front flap of the dust jacket.
3. Publisher's logo blind-stamped on lower right-hand cornver of back cover. Not to be confused with BCE blind stamp.
4. No book club edition indent on lower right-hand cornver of back cover.
Slight shelf wear to the extremities. Covers are mildly yellowed to the ends. The jacket has small closed tears and a tiny chips and a little edge wear. The jacket spine is a little darkened. Binding is tight and square. Text is clean with no markings. Very Nice Collectible Copy *** Dust jacket protected with acid-free archival quality mylar cover. *** *** Shipped in a custom box and packed with care. ***.

From the Publisher

In this moving novel, Father Hugh Kennedy, a recovering alcoholic, returns to Boston to repair his damaged priesthood. There he is drawn into the unruly world of the Carmodys, a sprawling, prosperous Irish family teeming with passion and riddled with secrets. The story of this entanglement is a beautifully rendered tale of grace and renewal, of friendship and longing, of loneliness and spiritual aridity giving way to hope.
Edwin O'Connor The Edge of Sadness