Buy this book on-line Rosca, Ninotchka : Twice BlessedW. W. Norton & Company, New York City, NY, 1992 ISBN 0393030911
First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 269 pages. The author's second novel. One of Ninotchka Rosca's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Ninotchka Rosca's "Twice Blessed". Magical Realism, tropical setting. "Has the magical feel of novels by the Latin-American Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez" (Publishers Weekly). Ninotchka Rosca's influences are more diverse, and her literary idol/father-figure is (by her own admission) Vladimir Nabokov rather than Garcia Marquez. Among Filipino-American writers, she is, stylistically and formally, the most ambitious. Ninotchka Rosca's concern as a novelist is the relation between the individual, his right to a private life and destiny, and the inescapable, often brutal, and near-Darwinian determinism of history, or the great Nabokovian theme. An absolute "must-have" title for Ninotchka Rosca collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed, placed, dated (in the month and year of publication), and inscribed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by the author: Feb. 21, 1992 For Jack: With great appreciation for your support of and work for POC's of my country Ninotchka Rosca New York". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, personally known to the author, is an American human-rights activist working specifically on behalf of prisoners of conscience in the Philippines. This title is a late-modern classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, placed, publication-month dated, and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER NINOTCHKA ROSCA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0393030911. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Rosca, Ninotchka : Twice Blessed. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres illustrées, livres anciens, fine bindings, atlases and collectables. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |