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The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro and Other Stories
de Paul Theroux
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0618265155
- ISBN 13
- 9780618265152
- Librería
-
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, January 2004. Hardcover . Very Good/Very Good. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good Dustjacket. Light soiling and shelfwear to DJ. Light soiling and shelfwear to covers. Spine ends bumped. Pages clean and tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned, independent book shop since 1984.
Sinopsis
"This is my only story. Now that I am sixty I can tell it." He, the narrator, was a twenty-one-year-old art student traveling the world. She was a countess -- apparently cold, haughty, and inaccessible -- traveling with Haroun, her ambiguous companion. When the young man makes their acquaintance at a hotel in Sicily, he finds himself filled with unexpected lust and playing a part in something he doesn't quite understand. Filled with Theroux's typically effortless but devastating descriptions of people and places, The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro is a brilliant portrayal of aging and decay, a shocking tale of sensuality in a golden age. The thrill and risk of pursuit and desire mark the accompanying stories of the sexual awakening and rites of passage of a Boston boyhood, the ruin of a writer in Africa, and the bewitchment of a retiree in Hawaii. This is Paul Theroux at his most allusive and wise, writing with a deep understanding of the frailties of men and boys.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Jane Addams Book Shop
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 217108
- Título
- The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro and Other Stories
- Autor
- Paul Theroux
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0618265155
- ISBN 13
- 9780618265152
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- January 2004
- Páginas
- 304
Términos de venta
Jane Addams Book Shop
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Sobre el vendedor
Jane Addams Book Shop
Miembro de Biblio desde 2010
Champaign, Illinois
Sobre Jane Addams Book Shop
We are a locally owned, independent bookstore that has been in business for more than twenty-five years. With more than 70,000 titles in our shop we have a number of very well-stocked sections that span fifteen separate rooms on three floors.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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....
