63353X1 First Printing. Random House, New York: 1968. 242 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. Stains on the inside dustjacket. The time and setting are nebulous, but can be assumed to be somewhere in the Southern United States, sometime around the turn of the twentieth century. The novel tells of a woman (Rinthy who bears her brother's baby. The brother, Culla, leaves the nameless infant in the woods to die, but he tells his sister that the newborn died of natural causes and had to be buried. Rinthy discovers this lie, and decides to set out and find the baby for herself. $1201.00USD
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