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Black Tickets
de PHILLIPS, Jayne Anne. (Ellen Gilchrist)
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- Tapa dura
- First
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- ISBN 10
- 0385280785
- ISBN 13
- 9780385280785
- Librería
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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Sobre este artículo
(New York): Delacorte, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Page edges a little toned as usual and very slight sunning on the boards, else near fine lacking the dust jacket. Author's first book by a regular trade publisher. Author Ellen Gilchrist's copy with her ownership signature on the front fly, with an untitled nine line poem by Gilchrist on the verso of the rear fly, about the capacities of the U.S. and the Soviet Union to destroy each others missiles in forty-five minutes, The first line of the poem is "We are the great power..." Underneath the poem is a seven line explanation of the poem in Gilchrist's hand. The poem appears to be unpublished. Gilchrist won a National Book Award for her collection of short stories *Victory Over Japan.*.
Sinopsis
Jayne Anne Phillips was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia. She is the author of three novels, MotherKind (2000), Shelter (1994) and Machine Dreams (1984 ) , and two collections of widely anthologized stories, Fast Lanes (1987) and Black Tickets (1979) . She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and a Bunting Fellowship. She has been awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction (1980) and an Academy Award in Literature (1997) by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been translated into twelve languages, and has appeared in Granta, Harper’s, DoubleTake, and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction . She is currently Professor of English and Director of the MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark, the State University of New Jersey. Her new novel, Lark and Termite , is forthcoming from Knopf.
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- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 468946
- Título
- Black Tickets
- Autor
- PHILLIPS, Jayne Anne. (Ellen Gilchrist)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0385280785
- ISBN 13
- 9780385280785
- Editorial
- Delacorte
- Lugar de publicación
- (New York)
- Fecha de publicación
- 1979
- Palabras clave
- AmerLit20thCent, AssociationCopy
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