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The Double
de Saramago, Jose
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- as new
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- As New/Fine
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Harcourt, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine novel by Jose Saramago, this being a First U.S. Edition and having been translated from the original Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. 324 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
Sinopsis
Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a history teacher in a secondary school. He is divorced, involved in a rather one-sided relationship with a bank clerk, and he is depressed. To lift his depression, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film and is unimpressed. During the night, noises in his apartment wake him. He goes into the living room to find that the VCR is replaying the video, and as he watches in astonishment he sees a man who looks exactly like him-or, more specifically, exactly like the man he was five years before, mustachioed and fuller in the face. He sleeps badly. Against his own better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursue his double. As he establishes the man's identity, what begins as a whimsical story becomes a dark meditation on identity and, perhaps, on the crass assumption behind cloning-that we are merely our outward appearance rather than the sum of our experiences.
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- Librería
- Structure, Verses, Agency Books - Member, I.O.B.A.
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 356232
- Título
- The Double
- Autor
- Saramago, Jose
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Harcourt
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2004
- Tamaño
- 8vo 8" - 9" tall
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Jose Saramago Margaret Jull Costa Nobel Prize
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