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Slapstick or, Lonesome no more!
de Vonnegut, Kurt
- Usado
- Estado
- Fine. Clean, tight, unread copy. Pristine.
- Librería
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1976. Leather bound. Fine. Clean, tight, unread copy. Pristine.. Saddle-brown leather/boards; gilt decoration all around with 4 raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. All edges gilt. Silk moire end papers with matching stain place-holder ribbon. No dust jacket, as issued. 256 pp. with bw illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Includes a message, special to this edition, from the author to the members of The First Edition Society.
Sinopsis
The book explores one of Vonnegut's favorite recurring themes, which is his belief in our need to belong extended families and how they would be an adequate, larger and more useful substitute for biological ones. The most endearing section of the novel, in my opinion, lies in its introduction, where Vonnegut candidly describes his beloved sister's death, which took place shortly after she had learnt of a train accident where her husband and children had been killed. As for the novel's plot, it follows the relationship of a boy and his sister who grow up together in isolation from the outside world because of their unsightliness. The boy turns out to be seen as more presentable and is separated from his sister, who grows to resent him for his seemingly desertion. Through some twists and turns they successively reunite and separate and after a major catastrophe, the boy becomes president of the United States, his campaign being centered on the formation of extended families on a grand scale.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 161610
- Título
- Slapstick or, Lonesome no more!
- Autor
- Vonnegut, Kurt
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Leather bound
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine. Clean, tight, unread copy. Pristine.
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- The Franklin Library
- Lugar de publicación
- Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
- Fecha de publicación
- 1976
- Palabras clave
- Gallimaufry; Franklin Library; Kurt Vonnegut ; Kurt Vonnegut ; ;
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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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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....
