The Chrome Suite.
de BIRDSELL, Sandra
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Tamworth, Ontario, Canada
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(Toronto): McClelland & Stewart, (1992). First edition. Octavo, card covers with french flaps. Signed by Birdsell. Blurb by Ondaatje. Alice Munro and Jane Urquhart are also admirers of Birdsell's fiction. Cheap paper used for the text block has toned, else fine..
Sinopsis
Sandra Birdsell was born in Manitoba and, until recently, has spent most of her life in Winnipeg. Her first novel, The Missing Child (1989), won the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Her second novel, The Chrome Suite (1992), and her most recent collection of short fiction, The Two-Headed Calf (1997), were both shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. Her two previous short story collections, Night Travellers and Ladies of the House , were reissued in 1987 as Agassiz Stories . Her most recent novel, The Russländer (2001), won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Fiction, the Saskatchewan Book Award for Book of the Year, and the Regina Book Award, and was a finalist for the Giller Prize. Sandra Birdsell’s fiction has been anthologized and has appeared in literary journals and Saturday Night magazine. She lives in Regina. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB
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- Título
- The Chrome Suite.
- Autor
- BIRDSELL, Sandra
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- Usado
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- (Toronto): McClelland & Stewart, (1992). First edition.
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