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The Ghost Writer
por ROTH, Philip
- Usado
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0374161895
- ISBN 13
- 9780374161897
- Livreiro
-
Littleton, Colorado, United States
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 0374161895 . First printing of the trade edition, following a limited first edition. In this novel Philip Roth introduces his Nathan Zuckerman character as he tries to establish himself as a writer. --- In full blue cloth-covered boards with author initials to cover and titling to spine, both stamped in silver. Volume is housed in purple and brown jacket; reddish-brown topstain. --- With minor whitish discoloration to cloth, otherwise volume lacks damages. Unclipped jacket with some rubbing, slight chafing to edges and a little age-toning, else in good shape and protected in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (6), 180 pages .
Sinopse
In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral . In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004.” Recently Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. Roth is the only living American novelist to have his work published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 84012
- Título
- The Ghost Writer
- Autor
- ROTH, Philip
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edição
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374161895
- ISBN 13
- 9780374161897
- Editorial
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Local de publicação
- New York
- Data de publicação
- 1979
- Palavras-chave
- 0374161895
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Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
Sobre Bluebird Books
Bluebird Books is the bookselling business of Eric Mayer, operating from my base in Littleton, Colorado. I specialize in classic fiction and literature, books on birds and natural history, railroadiana, biography, history and many other genres. Bluebird Books features publications by the Modern Library and Everyman's Library. I offer free shipping on books shipped within the US via USPS Media Mail. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: I recommend that you use Biblio.com for your international orders because they have formed a partnership with Asendia to allow for much more affordable shipping on parcels weighing under 5 lb. (about 2.26 kg).
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- Good+
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- Rubbing
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