The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose
de Munro, Alice
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Ver descripción
- ISBN 10
- 0394506820
- ISBN 13
- 9780394506821
- Librería
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, 1979. First US Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; VG-/VG-; dark brown spine with off-white text; first US edition; dust jacket has some chips to edges; mild rubbing to exterior; ex-library sticker to rear; mylar wrap; cloth has slight damp staining to tail edge; worn edges; flaps adhered to pastedown; otherwise exterior clean; text block edges show mild tone; deckled fore edge; small stain to contents page; interior clean; ex-library adhesive remnants to rear endpaper; mild shadow toning to endpapers; crease to fore edge to rear endpaper; pp 210. 1343291. FP New Rockville Stock.
Sinopsis
Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen collections of stories as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women, and two volumes of Selected Stories. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards and two of its Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England’s W. H. Smith Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Granta, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron.
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- Librería
- Second Story Books, ABAA
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1343291
- Título
- The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose
- Autor
- Munro, Alice
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First US Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394506820
- ISBN 13
- 9780394506821
- Editorial
- Alfred A. Knopf, Inc
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1979
- Palabras clave
- short stories
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