The Secret Life of Bees (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)
KIDD, Sue Monk. The Secret Life of Bees. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2015.
Octavo. Full brown leather. Spine with four raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt lettering and design to covers and fore-edges. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 302 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Part of the Easton Press Signed Modern Classics series. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published New York: Viking Press, 2002.
Sue Monk Kidd (b. 1948) grew up in Sylvester, Georgia, trained as a registered nurse, and came to writing through religious memoir before producing, in her mid-fifties, the debut novel that spent more than a hundred weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, sold more than six million copies in the United States alone, and was translated into thirty-six languages. The Baltimore Sun described her as "a direct literary descendant of Carson McCullers" — a comparison that captures something of the novel's Southern Gothic atmosphere and its feel for the particular textures of rural Southern life.
The novel is set in South Carolina in the summer of 1964, the year of the Civil Rights Act. Lily Owens is fourteen years old and has carried since early childhood the blurred and terrible memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. Her only companion is her caretaker Rosaleen, a fierce-hearted Black woman who, while attempting to register to vote, insults three of the town's most dangerous racists and is arrested. Lily, knowing she cannot leave Rosaleen behind, breaks her out of custody and the two flee together to Tiburon — a town whose name Lily found on a piece of paper among her dead mother's few possessions.
In Tiburon they are taken in by the Boatwright sisters: August, May, and June, three Black women who keep bees and produce honey under the label of the Black Madonna. August, the eldest, is a woman of extraordinary intelligence and composure who becomes, without announcement or sentimentality, the mother figure Lily has spent her life without. The novel moves between the domestic world of the Boatwright household — the beehives, the honey house, the peculiar private religion the sisters have constructed around a carved wooden Black Madonna — and Lily's gradual uncovering of what her mother's life actually was, which turns out to be both harder and more sustaining than she had expected.
The novel was adapted into a film in 2008 directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, with Dakota Fanning as Lily and Queen Latifah as August, alongside Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson, and Sophie Okonedo, and into a stage musical in 2010.
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The Secret Life of Bees (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)
The Secret Life of Bees (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)
KIDD, Sue Monk. The Secret Life of Bees. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2015.
Octavo. Full brown leather. Spine with four raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt lettering and design to covers and fore-edges. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 302 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Part of the Easton Press Signed Modern Classics series. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published New York: Viking Press, 2002.
Sue Monk Kidd (b. 1948) grew up in Sylvester, Georgia, trained as a registered nurse, and came to writing through religious memoir before producing, in her mid-fifties, the debut novel that spent more than a hundred weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, sold more than six million copies in the United States alone, and was translated into thirty-six languages. The Baltimore Sun described her as "a direct literary descendant of Carson McCullers" — a comparison that captures something of the novel's Southern Gothic atmosphere and its feel for the particular textures of rural Southern life.
The novel is set in South Carolina in the summer of 1964, the year of the Civil Rights Act. Lily Owens is fourteen years old and has carried since early childhood the blurred and terrible memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. Her only companion is her caretaker Rosaleen, a fierce-hearted Black woman who, while attempting to register to vote, insults three of the town's most dangerous racists and is arrested. Lily, knowing she cannot leave Rosaleen behind, breaks her out of custody and the two flee together to Tiburon — a town whose name Lily found on a piece of paper among her dead mother's few possessions.
In Tiburon they are taken in by the Boatwright sisters: August, May, and June, three Black women who keep bees and produce honey under the label of the Black Madonna. August, the eldest, is a woman of extraordinary intelligence and composure who becomes, without announcement or sentimentality, the mother figure Lily has spent her life without. The novel moves between the domestic world of the Boatwright household — the beehives, the honey house, the peculiar private religion the sisters have constructed around a carved wooden Black Madonna — and Lily's gradual uncovering of what her mother's life actually was, which turns out to be both harder and more sustaining than she had expected.
The novel was adapted into a film in 2008 directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, with Dakota Fanning as Lily and Queen Latifah as August, alongside Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson, and Sophie Okonedo, and into a stage musical in 2010.
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Catalogue Number: HH000524
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KIDD, Sue Monk. The Secret Life of Bees. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2015.
Octavo. Full brown leather. Spine with four raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt lettering and design to covers and fore-edges. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 302 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Part of the Easton Press Signed Modern Classics series. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published New York: Viking Press, 2002.
Sue Monk Kidd (b. 1948) grew up in Sylvester, Georgia, trained as a registered nurse, and came to writing through religious memoir before producing, in her mid-fifties, the debut novel that spent more than a hundred weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, sold more than six million copies in the United States alone, and was translated into thirty-six languages. The Baltimore Sun described her as "a direct literary descendant of Carson McCullers" — a comparison that captures something of the novel's Southern Gothic atmosphere and its feel for the particular textures of rural Southern life.
The novel is set in South Carolina in the summer of 1964, the year of the Civil Rights Act. Lily Owens is fourteen years old and has carried since early childhood the blurred and terrible memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. Her only companion is her caretaker Rosaleen, a fierce-hearted Black woman who, while attempting to register to vote, insults three of the town's most dangerous racists and is arrested. Lily, knowing she cannot leave Rosaleen behind, breaks her out of custody and the two flee together to Tiburon — a town whose name Lily found on a piece of paper among her dead mother's few possessions.
In Tiburon they are taken in by the Boatwright sisters: August, May, and June, three Black women who keep bees and produce honey under the label of the Black Madonna. August, the eldest, is a woman of extraordinary intelligence and composure who becomes, without announcement or sentimentality, the mother figure Lily has spent her life without. The novel moves between the domestic world of the Boatwright household — the beehives, the honey house, the peculiar private religion the sisters have constructed around a carved wooden Black Madonna — and Lily's gradual uncovering of what her mother's life actually was, which turns out to be both harder and more sustaining than she had expected.
The novel was adapted into a film in 2008 directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, with Dakota Fanning as Lily and Queen Latifah as August, alongside Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson, and Sophie Okonedo, and into a stage musical in 2010.
Fine. Presenting as new.
This book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000524
