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Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author Very Good/Very Good. Appears to be First Edition, not stated. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. This lovely hard cover book, 268 pages long, is in very good condition, with light shelf wear. The pages are tight, bright and clean. The dust jacket is in very good condition, with light shelf wear.
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo. 268 pp. Very light edgewear; pictorial dustjacket shows barely perceptible mark where laminate is peeling on spine, else an excellent copy. "...both hilarious and disturbing. In its compassionate investigation of moral truths and its ferocious embrace of the fractured nature of every one of its characters, it attains the heightened quality of a modern-day parable. "
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo. 268 pp. Dustjacket shows light creasing at extremities with light edgewear, else fine. A clean and bright copy.
Description: Very Good + in very good + jacket. 268 pp. Book is clean and tight. Dj has light shelf wear. not price clipped. Book is in Brodart protective sleeve. 25% of our book sales go to Sick Children's Hospital located in Toronto. There is a 8% sales tax on all Ontario orders.
Description: Fine in Fine (-) jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Inscribed By Author 8vo, blk bds, 268pp. Her 3rd novel about a girl who was dropped on her head at birth yet plays the piano like Mozart. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page: "For Kathleen/With Best wishes, /Barbara Gowdy". There is a library stamp to the front endpaper although this is not a library book. Except for this stamp, the book is in Fine, as new condition in complete Fine (-) Dj. (1.9 FO 22/5.
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Signed by Author HB-1st. edition-FINE/FINE-Signed by author on title page-Author's third novel tells the tale of a family, secrets, and a child who was dropped on the head, doesn't speak, but plays piano like Mozart....
Description: As New in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author (CAD) 8vo, blk bds, 268pp. Her 3rd novel about a girl who was dropped on her head at birth yet plays the piano like Mozart. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page, no other markings, as New in Fine Dj in mylar sleeve. (1.9 JM FO 22/1.
Description: Brian Deines; Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. Signed by Author 268 pp. Inscribed on the title page by Barbara Gowdy to a previous owner. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated endpapers; headband. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket with a worn patch on the upper right of the front panel; aside from the author's inscription, no interior markings. Dustjacket art by Brian Deines. Scans are available for all books.
Description: Brian Deines; Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Author's Third Novel. 8vo. Signed by Author 268 pp. Signed by Barbara Gowdy on the title page. Black boards with gilt lettering on the spine; decorated endpapers; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; aside from the author's signature, no interior markings.
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Signed by Author 1st printing of the first Canadian hardcover and true first edition SIGNED by Gowdy on the title page. A tight copy with sharp corners, and the jacket is crisp and price intact. As-new. This edition features endpapers decorated with the publisher's colophon. Mister Sandman is the author's third novel. Gowdy's novel The Romantic was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. An autographed first printing of the first Canadian hardcover edition of that book is also available from this bookseller.
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author A very nice copy with similar dustjacket. Previous owner's info in ink to the front free endpaper. Authors signature on the title page. 268 pages.
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Signed by Author(s) First Canadian (and true first) Edition. The third novel by the author of FALLING ANGELS. Fine/Fine. One tiny closed tear to the rear dust jacket panel, else very clean. Signed by Gowdy.
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Signed by Author 1st printing of the first Canadian hardcover and true first edition SIGNED by Gowdy on the title page. A tight copy with sharp corners, and the jacket is crisp and price intact. As-new. This edition features endpapers decorated with the publisher's colophon. Mister Sandman is the author's third novel. Gowdy's novel The Romantic was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. An autographed first printing of the first Canadian hardcover edition of that book is also available from this bookseller.
Description: Good. Light shelving wear with minimal damage to cover and bindings. Pages show minor use. Help save a tree. Buy all your used books from Green Earth Books. Read. Recycle and Reuse!
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of only minimal use. All pages are undamaged with no significant creases or tears. With pride from Motor City. All books guaranteed. Best Service, Best Prices.
"I knew I was in for a treat when I opened my copy of the new edition of Barbara Gowdy's 1995 novel Mister Sandman, and saw that the foreword was written by Katherine Dunn, author of the weird and wonderful Geek Love. I wasn't disappointed.
Set in Toronto in the late fifties through the early seventies, Mister Sandman is the story of the Canarys, a most unusual family. Father Gordon works at a publishing house, editing potboilers. He's quiet and deep, and he--like everyone in the novel--has a secret. A very big secret. Mother Doris is an habitual liar ("the truth is just a version" she famously says) who's built a past as an actress and now raises three children. She has a secret, too. Sonja is the eldest of the three girls, and her secret is that the youngest of the three is her daughter. Marcy is the middle girl, smart and aware. And then there's Joan.
The eternally innocent Sonja is seduced--or raped?--by a man we later discover to be extremely important to others in the family. Doris immediately determines that they must go to her great aunt in Vancouver, where Sonja can have the baby and no one will be the wiser. There is never any thought of not keeping the baby and raising her as Doris and Gordon's third daughter.
Joan is lovely: tiny, delicate, and pale, she is physically an eternal child . She doesn't talk or write, but she has the gifts of music and insight. Joan is the literary descendant of Gunter Grass's Oskar, who at the age of three wills himself not to grow any bigger, and of Irving's Lily Berry, who just stops growing; like them, despite her tiny stature she has emotional, spiritual, and intellectual capacities far beyond her apparent years--and far beyond those of everyone around her as well.
Joan is, for most of the book, the secret keeper of the family. All are drawn to her and each feels the need to confide in her. She knows all of the lies and the deceptions, she knows the joys, the pleasures (both conventional and illicit), she knows what everybody wants. In the end, it seems, she knows what they need, too, although they don't know it themselves. And, as almost always happens, the secrets will be told.
Words and language are very important in Mister Sandman. Joan speaks a language of soft clicks and hisses and moos and meows, perfect imitations of the noises she hears around her and mostly intelligible to her family. Sonja hears her mother's declaration that "the truth is just a version" as "the truth is just aversion." The words pour out of Gordon and Doris and Marcy and even the dull Sonja, and Joanie absorbs them all. What she does with them in the end is her gift to her "darlings," her family.
Mister Sandman is magical--dreams are prophetic, transformative, sometimes shared by more than one person. It's tragic, full of betrayal, despair, revelation. It's funny. It's excruciatingly erotic, often at the most awkward of times. Occasionally the novel verges on being cloyingly quirky, but there's always just enough nastiness lurking at the edges to pull it back into the realm of the weird and the wonderful."
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