Whistle Stop
de Wolff, Maritta M
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good+
- Librería
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Random House. Very Good+. (c.1941). 4th printing. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a nice tight clean book with no significant wear apart from a bit of scuffing to both covers, and slight yellowing to paper spine label]. A hard-boiled yarn about a family of shiftless lowlifes in an economically and culturally depressed small town on the outskirts of Detroit, this novel put its young author (just 22 when the book was published) on the literary map, earning special notoriety for its rather raw language as well as its thematic elements (including incest and domestic violence). It was adapted into a somewhat watered-down film version in 1946, starring Ava Gardner and George Raft. The author published five more novels during her lifetime, and one more ("Sudden Rain") was published posthumously, after the manuscript was discovered in her freezer following her death in 2002. NOTE: Although stated on the copyright page as the "Fourth Printing," this is in the first-state binding, black cloth with printed paper labels on the spine and front cover, which is much less common than the later-state full red cloth binding (which many booksellers mis-identify as the "original" binding). .
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Detalles
- Librería
- ReadInk
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 23924
- Título
- Whistle Stop
- Autor
- Wolff, Maritta M
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+
- Edición
- 4th printing
- Editorial
- Random House
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- (c.1941)
- Palabras clave
- Small Towns, Movie Source
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- Cloth
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
