The Dove Brings Peace [*SIGNED*]

[a good sound copy with only minor shelfwear; the jacket is moderately edgeworn, with a couple of tiny bits of paper loss at the spine ends, a couple of other minor short closed edge-tears]. (pen and ink drawings) SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. The author's first book, set in an Armenian immigrant community. Usually described as a novel, but characterized thus in a contemporary review: "The book is made up of a series of disconnected stories based mainly upon [the author's] childhood experiences, and those of his brothers, sisters, parents, cousins and friends. Yet through the whole there is a thread of continuity which carries the reader from chapter to chapter as smoothly as though he were reading a novel." In a widely-syndicated review, critic John Selby compared the author to his fellow (and at that time very famous) Armenian, William Saroyan: "The book is a charming performance in the first place. But it also makes one think. It makes one think that perhaps William Saroyan is not a genius as he and others insist he is, but only an Armenian. Maybe any gifted, literate Armenian can turn out these stories. For [this book] might have been written by Saroyan on one of his less fantastic days. It is a book about the little people; literary Armenians seem to be little people. It is also about people who have suffered greatly as individuals and as a race, which is also an Armenian characteristic. Its people speak a wonderful language of fantasy and color, use extraordinary figures of speech, react oddly to standard things." Signed by Author

Product Info

Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart Inc.

Year: (c.1944)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

Signed

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