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Cereus Blooms at Night
de Shani Mootoo
- Usado
- as new
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 1862072213
- ISBN 13
- 9781862072213
- Librería
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Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
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Sobre este artículo
Granta Books, London, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). As New/As New. A haunting and heart-breaking first novel, shortlisted for both the 1997 Giller Prize and the chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Combining diverse story-telling traditions, Shani Mootoo's luminous writing explores identity, gender and violence in a celebration of our capacity to love, and to survive cruelty and despair. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket un-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 1862072213. ISBN/EAN: 9781862072213. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 19238. . 9781862072213
Sinopsis
Shani Mootoo was born in Ireland and grew up in Trinidad. She has lived in Canada since the early 1980s. Her acclaimed first novel, Cereus Blooms at Night, was published in fourteen countries, was a finalist for The Giller Prize, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award. She is also an accomplished visual and video artist. Shani Mootoo lives in Edmonton.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
(AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 19238
- Título
- Cereus Blooms at Night
- Autor
- Shani Mootoo
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- As New
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 1862072213
- ISBN 13
- 9781862072213
- Editorial
- Granta Books
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1996
- Palabras clave
- BZDB1 Fiction; ISBN: 1862072213 EAN: 9781862072213 Shani Mootoo Cereus Blooms at Night
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Sobre el vendedor
Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2004
Katoomba, New South Wales
Sobre Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
Mr Pickwick's occupies a large, 3-storey former Bank building in the heart of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. We carry over 60,000 books in store, and cater to both the specialist collector trade as well as the general book trade in this region. Mr Pickwick's is one of the most comprehensive bookshops in Australia, and also operates an extensive Bookfinder service for its several thousand database clients.
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