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Excursions in the Real World
de Trevor, William (illus. Lucy Willis)
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- Tapa dura
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- Estado
- Near fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (a little bumping); black boards, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmark
- ISBN 10
- 0091770866
- ISBN 13
- 9780091770860
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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London: Hutchinson, 1993. 1st. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (a little bumping); black boards, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Autobiographical essays, about people and places, personal enthusiasms and fascinations, that have remained snagged in William Trevor's memory over the years. He writes of childhood, school and university, early days in Dublin, writing in London. The New Yorker called William Trevor 'probably the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language.'
Sinopsis
William Trevor was born in Cork in 1928. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and has spent a great part of his life in Ireland. Since his first novel, The Old Boys , was awarded the Hawthorne Prize in 1964, he has received many honours for his work including the Royal Society of Literature Award, the allied Irish Banks Prize for Literature and the Whitbread Prize for fiction. He is a member of the Irish Academy of Letters and he has bee awarded an Honorary CBE. His most recent books are Two Lives and The Collected Stories of William Trevor . Lucy Willis works principally in watercolour an etching and is one of the most versatile of contemporary British artists. Her growing reputation as a portraitist in oils was confirmed in 1992 when she won first prize in the BP National Portrait Gallery Award.
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- Librería
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- IYC132084
- Título
- Excursions in the Real World
- Autor
- Trevor, William (illus. Lucy Willis)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (a little bumping); black boards, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmark
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0091770866
- ISBN 13
- 9780091770860
- Editorial
- Hutchinson
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1993
- Páginas
- 201
- Palabras clave
- 1st, essays, autobiography, William Trevor, illustration Lucy Willis
- Catálogos del vendedor
- 2nd-hand books;
- X weight
- 0.59 g
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")
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