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THE PROPHET'S CAMEL BELL
de Laurence, Margaret
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa blanda
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno
- ISBN 10
- 0771047053
- ISBN 13
- 9780771047053
- Librería
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Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1963. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 241 pp. Trade paperback format. Personalized inscription from Margaret Laurence to author, Jean Little. Light edge and corner wear with a crease on the front hinge and an uncreased spine; aside from the author's inscription, no interior markings. The Contents are: Innocent Voyage; Footsteps; House in the Clouds; Jilal; Flowering Desert; Place of Exile; The Ballehs; Arrividerci, Italia; A Teller of Tales; Mohamed; Arabetto; The Old Warrior; A Tree for Poverty; The Imperialists; and Nabad Gelyo; followed by a glossary of Somali words and a bibliography..
Sinopsis
Margaret Laurence was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, in 1926. Upon graduation from Winnipeg’s United College in 1947, she took a job as a reporter for the Winnipeg Citizen . From 1950 until 1957 Laurence lived in Africa, the first two years in Somalia, the next five in Ghana, where her husband, a civil engineer, was working. She translated Somali poetry and prose during this time, and began her career as a fiction writer with stories set in Africa. When Laurence returned to Canada in 1957, she settled in Vancouver, where she devoted herself to fiction with a Ghanaian setting: in her first novel, This Side Jordan , and in her first collection of short fiction, The Tomorrow-Tamer . Her two years in Somalia were the subject of her memoir, The Prophet’s Camel Bell . Separating from her husband in 1962, Laurence moved to England, which became her home for a decade, the time she devoted to the creation of five books about the fictional town of Manawaka, patterned after her birthplace, and its people: The Stone Angel , A Jest of God , The Fire-Dwellers , A Bird in the House , and The Diviners . Laurence settled in Lakefield, Ontario, in 1974. She complemented her fiction with essays, book reviews, and four children’s books. Her many honours include two Governor General’s Awards for Fiction and more than a dozen honorary degrees. Margaret Laurence died in Lakefield, Ontario, in 1987.
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- Librería
- W. Fraser Sandercombe
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 231388
- Título
- THE PROPHET'S CAMEL BELL
- Autor
- Laurence, Margaret
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Edición
- First Printing - First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0771047053
- ISBN 13
- 9780771047053
- Editorial
- McClelland and Stewart
- Lugar de publicación
- Toronto
- Fecha de publicación
- 1963
- Tamaño
- 8vo
- Palabras clave
- african; africa; tribal; the diviners; canadian author; the stone angel; a jest of god; governor general's award; molson prize; president's medal; order of canada;
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Literature;
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