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The Coup - 1st Edition/1st Printing
de Updike, John
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 039450268X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394502687
- Librería
-
Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1978. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 039450268X . A just about Fine first printing of the first edition in Near Fine dust-jacket, lightly edge-worn and tanned, signed and inscribed by author John Updike on the front fly-leaf; Set in the early 1970's in the imaginary African nation of Kush, this novel is narrated tongue-in-cheek by exiled president, Colonel Hakim Félix Ellelloû who has a fanatic aversion to the United States. The US keeps creeping into Kush and the repercussions of this subversion constitute the violent events of the story; 8vo; [xiv], 298, [8] pages; Signed by Author .
Sinopsis
John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker . His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 24871
- Título
- The Coup - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Autor
- Updike, John
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edición
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 039450268X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394502687
- Editorial
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1978
- Palabras clave
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, C2014VM0228S
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Legendary Authors / Updike, John;
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