Add this copy of The Blue Flame-Tree to cart. $7.99, very good condition, Sold by Woodrow's Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Canton, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Carcanet Press.
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Very good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 142 p. Audience: General/trade. Pages are unmarked. Cover shows some aging, but is in good shape, without creases or tears, and very light rubbing around the edges.
Add this copy of The Blue Flame-Tree to cart. $14.00, very good condition, Sold by ZENO'S rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1984 by Carcanet.
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Very Good jacket. London. 1984. Carcanet. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0856354708. 142 pages. hardcover. Cover design by Bruce Wilson. keywords: Caribbean Guadeloupe Literature World Literature. DESCRIPTION-This is the story of three generations of a family. It begins with the legend of the folk-hero O'O, the black corsair who frees slaves from the slave ships and flays the slavers, making breeches from their skin. From legend we move to history, but a history into which fantasy and poetry flow naturally. Among the corsair's descendents there are twins in each generation, and they express the paradoxical nature of the changing black experience on the island of Guadeloupe and FRENCH Caribbean generally. The history of the O'O clan is one of marriages, of racial mixture and development. What remains is the island, its contours, its flora and fauna, and the sea that washes it, things which change in meaning but not in character with each generation. The social miracle at the heart of the story, the union of the black corsair's descendant to the last descendant of the white corsair, is marked by nature when the red flame-tree under which the marriage is solemnized miraculously turns blue. The tree remains throughout an emblem of possibility and of the deep complicity between nature and these people. Many passions are engaged in THE BLUE FLAME-TREE: political, sexual, cultural, religious. It is about race and about language, about possession of things and people, about the subjection of women and the egotism of success. But most of all it is the story of particular people in a particular place, wonderful and terrible, to which we come as strangers but which we leave with a sense of having been changed. inventory #1088.
Add this copy of The Blue Flame-Tree to cart. $24.82, very good condition, Sold by Harry Righton rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Worcs, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1985 by Carcanet Press.
Add this copy of The Blue Flame-Tree to cart. $25.00, like new condition, Sold by Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Springfield, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1984 by Carcanet Press,.
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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0856354708. Translated from the French by Stephen Romer. Afterword by Maryse Conde. First British edition. Fine in a near fine (a bit faded along the spine), price clipped dust jacket.
Add this copy of The Blue-Flame Tree to cart. $28.00, like new condition, Sold by Eve's Book Garden rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from ALBANY, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1984 by Carcanet Pr.
Add this copy of The Blue Flame-Tree to cart. $30.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1984 by Carcanet Press.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First English edition. Translated by Stephen Romer. Afterword by Stephen Romer. Octavo. 142pp. A bit of light erasure on the front fly, spine base gently bumped, near fine in price-clipped and lightly worn, very good dust jacket with a sunned spine and some toning on the lower panel and flaps.
Add this copy of The Blue Flame-Tree to cart. $46.34, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Carcanet Pr.
Add this copy of The Blue-Flame Tree to cart. $46.50, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1984 by Carcanet Pr.
