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The Accidental
de Smith, Ali
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fine /Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0241141907
- ISBN 13
- 9780241141908
- Librería
-
HINDHEAD, Surrey, United Kingdom
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London: Hamish Hamilton. Shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize. Appears to be an unread copy. No inscriptions; the original, unclipped dust jacket is protected by a clear, removable cover. Weysprings Books is a Member of: the IOBA and PBFA, and subscribes to the Associations' Codes of Ethics. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 2005.
Sinopsis
Winner of the Whitbread Award for best novel and a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, The Accidental is the virtuoso new novel by the singularly gifted Ali Smith. Jonathan Safran Foer has called her writing "thrilling." Jeanette Winterson has praised her for her "style, ideas, and punch." Here, in a novel at once profound, playful, and exhilaratingly inventive, she transfixes us with a portrait of a family unraveled by a mysterious visitor.Amber--thirtysomething and barefoot--shows up at the door of the Norfolk cottage that the Smarts are renting for the summer. She talks her way in. She tells nothing but lies. She stays for dinner.Eve Smart, the author of a best-selling series of biographical reconstructions, thinks Amber is a student with whom her husband, Michael, is sleeping. Michael, an English professor, knows only that her car broke down. Daughter Astrid, age twelve, thinks she's her mother's friend. Son Magnus, age seventeen, thinks she's an angel.As Amber insinuates herself into the family, the questions of who she is and how she's come to be there drop away. Instead, dazzled by her seeming exoticism, the Smarts begin to examine the accidents of their lives through the searing lens of Amber's perceptions. When Eve finally banishes her from the cottage, Amber disappears from their sight, but not--they discover when they return home to London--from their profoundly altered lives.Fearlessly intelligent and written with an irresistible blend of lyricism and whimsy, The Accidental is a tour de force of literary improvisation that explores the nature of truth, the role of chance, and the transformative power of storytelling.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Librería
- Weysprings Books, IOBA, PBFA
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 008433
- Título
- The Accidental
- Autor
- Smith, Ali
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0241141907
- ISBN 13
- 9780241141908
- Editorial
- Hamish Hamilton
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 2005
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Modern First Editions;
Términos de venta
Weysprings Books, IOBA, PBFA
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Weysprings Books, IOBA, PBFA
Miembro de Biblio desde 2010
HINDHEAD, Surrey
Sobre Weysprings Books, IOBA, PBFA
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