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Exiles in the Garden (signed)
de Just, Ward
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Aceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0547195583
- ISBN 13
- 9780547195582
- Librería
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Decatur, Georgia, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009 1st ed. SIGNED on title p. by author. 279pp. hardback tall 8vo: Fine in a Very Good+ dj in Brodart poly cover [dj = small notched tear @ spine tail; else VG+] A nice signed copy of this late novel by the American writer Just (1935-2019).
Sinopsis
"One of the most astute writers of American fiction" ( New York Times Book Review ) delivers the resonant story of Alec Malone, a senator’s son who rejects the family business of politics for a career as a newspaper photographer. Alec and his Swiss wife, Lucia, settle in Georgetown next door to a couple whose émigré gatherings in their garden remind Lucia of all the things Americans are not. She leaves Alec as his career founders on his refusal of an assignment to cover the Vietnam War — a slyly subversive fictional choice from Ward Just, who was himself a renowned war correspondent. At the center of the novel is Alec’s unforeseen reckoning with Lucia’s long-absent father, Andre Duran, a Czech living out the end of his life in a hostel called Goya House. Duran’s career as an adventurer and antifascist commando is everything Alec’s is not. The encounter forces Alec to confront just how different a life where things — "terrible things, terrible things" — happen is from a life where nothing much happens at all. Once again, "Ward Just writes the kind of books they say no one writes anymore: smart, well-crafted narratives — wise to the ways of the world — that use fiction to show us how we live" (Joseph Kanon, Los Angeles Times ).
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- Librería
- Auldfarran Books, IOBA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 21790
- Título
- Exiles in the Garden (signed)
- Autor
- Just, Ward
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 2009 1st ed.
- ISBN 10
- 0547195583
- ISBN 13
- 9780547195582
- Editorial
- Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 2009-07-07
- Palabras clave
- AMERICAN FICTION SIGNED COLLECTIBLE COPY
- Catálogos del vendedor
- American Fiction;
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Auldfarran Books, IOBA
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- Brodart
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- Fine
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Spine
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