Description

Random House [Published date: 1956]. Hard cover, 351 pp. Stated First Printing. Good in acceptable+ dust jacket. Dust jacket design by Ismar David. Blue cloth covered boards with white lettering and brown block with gold and white lettering on spine. Light bumping and fading to edges of covers and light overall scuffing and soiling to covers as well. fading and soiling. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few 3/4" or less chips and tears and creasing along edges. Light overall scuffing, aging and soiling to jacket as well with some of the color scuffed off along the edges. NOT price clipped ($3.95). Now in an archival quality Brodart cover. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Includes a black and white publicity photo of Irene Patai laid in. [From front jacket flap] This dramatic story of divine and human love is the tale of the Prophet Hosea and his beautiful and restless wife Gomer. When the old prophet, Amos, dies, his mantle falls upon the half-unwilling shoulders of Hosea, who is compelled thereafter to sacrifice his personal life to his God-inspired mission. When Gomer, feeling rejected, seeks fulfillment elsewhere, and Hosea is confronted with her infidelity, this story of two strong and passionate personalities in conflict mounts to its inexorable climax. THE VALLEY OF GOD is an extraordinary and richly textured re-creation of Biblical times, Biblical lands and Biblical people. Mrs. Patai demonstrates from the outset a complete and comprehensive knowledge of her subject and background, but she never allows this knowledge to intrude upon the sweep of story and the play of character. Although THE VALLEY OF GOD is an historical novel in the best sense, the passions and conflicts that engage and fill the lives of its characters are as basic and dominant in human beings today as they were in the time of the Prophet.