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The Ghost Writer
de Roth, Philip
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/Very good
- Librería
-
Livingston, Montana, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed, inscribed and dated August 1979 on front free endpaper: "For Tom -- on / his birthday / My best -- / Philip." Small octavo (21 cm), pp. 184. Blue cloth with silver stamped spine titling and author's initials on front board. Purple, brown and green jacket, with $8.95 price. Red publisher's top stain. Light brown endpapers. Front board slightly warped, light rubbing and bumping. Jacket shows minor rubbing/soiling, with 1/2" closed tears on front and back. A finalist for the Pulitzer and the National Book Award, The Ghost Writer was the first in Roth's "Zuckerman Bound" trilogy.
Sinopsis
In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral . In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004.” Recently Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. Roth is the only living American novelist to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Elk River Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 35070
- Título
- The Ghost Writer
- Autor
- Roth, Philip
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1979
Términos de venta
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Elk River Books
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Livingston, Montana
Sobre Elk River Books
Elk River Books offers a curated selection of used and collectible books, specializing in outdoor literature, western history and authors from the Rocky Mountain West.
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- Octavo
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- Rubbing
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- Spine
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