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Bonnie Jones Reynolds : The Confetti Man

Stein and Day, New York, 1975

ISBN 0812817400

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. BH5 - A first edition (First published 1975 stated) hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, chipping, crease, and few tiny tears on the edges and corners, tanning and light shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners and light cover edgewear, endpapers were replaced and neatly fixed, spine cover and inside pages are loose/not attached, some light stains on the page edges, light tanning and shelf wear. Although not marked in any way, this copy comes from the personal collection of Otto Penzler, legendary editor and founder of the Mysterious Press, an award-winning icon in the genre. 9.5"x6.5", 324 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Morrow Burgess is an American as Hartford. She is black haired, blue eyed, nymphlike in body, talented, her family respectable New Englanders, Mayflower stock. Why then does Morrow rob graves for a living? And why did she make off with Jonas Salter's pornography collection in a van truck? Her parents, Grace and Chester Burgess, are typical, doting parents. Why then did Morrow bite her mother? And what is that thing Chester is building in the back yard, a sarcophagus? If the whole Burgess clan is so respectable, why did they have to be driven away from Gramma's funeral with a rifle? Don't you believe for one movement that the Burgesses are cursed. Take Euripedes Faversham Burgess, lawgiver, fondly referred to as Rip. He was interred in the family crypt in the year marked, 1835. They just can't help speaking of him as if he were still alive, can they? Moreover, why did the respectable successor to the Kennedys, wealthy, ambitious Vin Plowman, put aside his career in order to make Morrow Burgess a super-celebrity? And why did he, like the Burgesses, suddenly begin to flake? And his parents Nat and Vicky Plowman: he owns half of Connecticut she knows half of Connecticut. Why did they purposely give their son and the Burgess girl that strange house a wedding gift? Why all those rumors about the young couple? Why does Morrow need all those pills? Why separate bedrooms - and where does Vin go every night? The Confetti Man is the second novel to come from the pen of beautiful Bonnie Jones Reynolds, whose first, The Truth about Unicorns, was a notable success.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good

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