Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first paperback edition, later printing of First Edition unstated, June 1997 Broadway Play Productions. This Printing February 2012.
The exterior of this paperback edition is in Fine condition, with clean, illustrated covers with no creases, clean page blocks, mild surface wear, strong title on a square spine, a tight binding without spine cracks, lightly rubbed spine ends, mild edge wear and rounded corners. The interior of the book is also in Fine condition without any marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
is a love story, an old boy-meets-girl story, but … it’s also a story of theatrical enchantment, in which the ordinary is suddenly transformed into the miraculous. On a fantastically rainy night in Los Angeles, the city of Angels, a plain Joe named Anibal de la Luna picks up and brings home with him a poor, bedraggled woman hitchhiker who calls herself Celestina del Sol. She is fifty-four years old, she says, and she has been pregnant two years. She is indeed a rare and heavenly creature, a mystic wanderer with no sense of time and an infinite capacity to love. Alone in his little house, sealed off from the wails of the decaying city outside, De la Luna and Del Sol come together, joining their bodies and their dreams.
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