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The Overstory
de Powers, Richard
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 039363552X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393635522
- Librería
-
Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($27.95), lightly rubbed at the edges. Brown paper on the boards with bronze gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, name and short notes on the front endpaper, sparse marginalia. Powers's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of "activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of--and paean to--the natural world.
Sinopsis
The Overstory is a novel by Richard Powers published in 2018 by W.W. Norton. It is Powers's twelfth novel. The novel is about nine Americans whose unique life experiences with trees bring them together to address the destruction of forests. Powers was inspired to write the work while teaching at Stanford University after he encountered giant redwood trees for the first time. On 20 September 2018, The Overstory was shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize.On 15 April 2019, it was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 6547
- Título
- The Overstory
- Autor
- Powers, Richard
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 039363552X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393635522
- Editorial
- W.W. Norton & Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2018
- Palabras clave
- American Literature, 21st Century Literature, Contemporary Fiction, Environment, Environmentalism, Ecoterrorism, Logging
Términos de venta
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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Sobre el vendedor
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Miembro de Biblio desde 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
Sobre Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Jacket
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
