Bibliographic Description
84.09.W004: Marshall – The Chosen Place, The Timeless People
THE | CHOSEN | PLACE, | THE | TIMELESS | PEOPLE | PAULE | MARSHALL | Vintage Contemporaries | VINTAGE BOOKS • A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE • NEW YORK
First Vintage Books Edition, September 1984
240 leaves, pp. [6] 1-2 3-92 93-94 95-263 264-266 267-339 340-342 343-472 [2]
Contents: π1a blurbs and author photo, π1b “ALSO AVAILABLE IN VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES”, π2a title-page, π2b imprint, π3a epigraph, π3b blank, 1-472 The Chosen Place, The Timeless People: 1 section-title “BOOK | I | HEIRS | AND | DESCENDANTS”, 2 blank, 3-92 Book I, 93 section-title “BOOK | II | BOURNEHILLS”, 94 blank, 95-263 Book II, 264 blank, 265 section-title “BOOK | III | CARNIVAL”, 266 blank, 267-339 Book III, 340 blank, 341 section-title “BOOK | IV | WHITSUN”, 342 blank, 343-472 Book IV; χ1a blank, χ1b about the author.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Marc Tauss; interior author photo by Rhoda Nathans.
Copyright: ©1969. ISBN: 394-72633-2. Price: $6.95 (first printing); $13 USD / 16.50 CAD (eighth printing). The Chosen Place, The Timeless People was first published by Harcourt, Brace, & World, 1969.
Copies: JDP 1.1 (presumed), JDP 1.8
Blurbs
- (front cover) One of our finest American novelists. – The San Francisco Chronicle
- The chosen place is Bourneville, a remote, devastated part of a Carribean island; the timeless people are its inhabitants—black, poor, inextricably linked to their past enslavement. The advance team for an ambitious American research project arrives, and the tense ambivalent relationships that evolve—between natives and foreigners, blacks and whites, haves and have-nots—keenly dramatize the vicissitudes of power.
- Unforgettable…monumental. – The Washington Post Book World
- An important and moving book….Marshall is as wise as she is bold, for in compromising neither her politics nor her understanding of people, she makes better sense of both. – The Village Voice
- Impressive…a sustaining vision for contemporary man. – The New York Times
- When Marshall writes about those she truly loves, she cannot be resisted. She brings [to her characters] an instinctive understanding, a generosity, and a free humor that combine to form a style remarkable for its courage, color, and its natural control. – The New Yorker