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978-1-878086-54-9
1-878086-54-5
$14.95 hardcover
5 1/2" x 7"
125 pages black-and-white illustrations
Down Home Press
Also available, the
sequel to this beloved classic, A Gift of Angels |
An instant
classic. You will love this book if even a small part of a child still
lives within your heart. --Morganton Times-Herald
Affecting.
Poignant. Authentically moving. --Publishers Weekly
In the best
traditions of Christmas tales from Dickens of Capote. --Southern
Seen
The time: the early '50s. The
place: Thomasville, a small, furniture-manufacturing town in North
Carolina.
Sandy Black is four years
old, a victim of poverty and the great polio epidemic. She is utterly
devoted to her older brother, Whitey, and she loves a book called The
Littlest Angel.
When she makes it known that
she wants an angel doll for Christmas, something nobody in Thomasville
has ever seen, Whitey and his best friend, both ten years old, set out
to get her one. Their quest leads them to the greatest gift of all: the
lesson of love.
A deeply moving story, The
Angel Doll is certain to be read again and again for many
Christmases to come.
about the author
Jerry Bledsoe is the author of the New York Times Number One
bestseller Bitter Blood, as well as two other national
bestsellers, Blood Games and Before He Wakes, and nearly a
dozen other books, including the follow-up to The Angel Doll, A
Gift of Angels. He has been a contributing editor for Esquire,
a reporter and columnist for the Greensboro, North Carolina, News and
Record, the Charlotte Observer, and the Louisville Times.
His work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington
Post, New York, and many other publications. He lives in
Randolph County, North Carolina, and Carroll County, Virginia.
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