Gabriel's Gift: A Novel
de Kureishi, Hanif
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 074321711X
- ISBN 13
- 9780743217118
- Librería
-
La Porte, Texas, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York, New York, USA: Scribner, 2001. CF4 - An unred, tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear plus there is some very, very light bumping of the top right corners plus there are remainder marks on the top and bottom outside paper edges. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear. A novel about a young man whose parents, one a washed-up rock musician and the other working in a pub, whose life together has been shattered. The young man has dreams of becoming an artist and manages to get along in life through a mysterious connection to his dead twin brother. He gets a chance to heal his family from a chance visit with a mega-millionaire rock star who was the father's former band mate. By the author of "The Buddha of Suburbia," "The Black Album," "Love in a Blue Time," "Midnight All Day," and "Intimacy." 223p.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Sinopsis
Gabriel's father, a washed-up rock musician, has been chucked out of the house by Gabriel's mother, who works nights and sleeps days. Lonely Gabriel finds solace in a mysterious connection to his deceased twin, Archie, and in his gift for producing real objects simply by drawing them. Then a chance visit with rock star Lester Jones, his father's former band mate, provides Gabriel with a tool that might help mend his family. All he has to do is figure out how to use it. Hanif Kureishi portrays Gabriel's naive hope and artistic aspirations with the same insight that he brought to the Anglo-Indian experience in The Buddha of Suburbia and to infidelity in Intimacy. Gabriel's Gift is a tender meditation on failure, talent, and the power of imagination, and offers a humorous portrait of a generation that only started to think about growing up when its children did.
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- Librería
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(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- SCW07046
- Título
- Gabriel's Gift: A Novel
- Autor
- Kureishi, Hanif
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Edición
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 074321711X
- ISBN 13
- 9780743217118
- Editorial
- Scribner
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, New York, USA
- Fecha de publicación
- 2001
- Palabras clave
- Fiction Literature Literary Fiction Saga Sagas
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction / Modern Fiction Firsts;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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