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Ben, in the World: The Sequel to the Fifth Child
by Lessing, Doris
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060196289
- ISBN 13
- 9780060196288
- Seller
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: HarperColins Publishers, 2000. BX6 - A hard cover first American edition withdrawn ex-library book in good+ to very good- condition with a dust jacket in very good condition. Stated first edition with a sequence of numbers appearing on the copyright page with the "1" present and no additional printings indicated. A tight, clean, sound copy in black paper covered boards quarter bound in textured black paper with gold lettering on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear plus there are the usual library stamps and label on the top outside paper edges, the front free endpaper, and the title page. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A novel about a young man who has never fit in. He is too big, too strong, and inhumanly made. His inability to fit in eventually takes him to to the Andes mountains where he at last discovers where he has come from and who his people are. By the author of "Love, Again," "Mara and Dann," "Under My Skin," and "Walking in the Shade." 178p. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 5.75"x8.5". Ex-Library.
Synopsis
At eighteen, Ben is in the world, but not of it. He is too large, too awkward, too inhumanly made. Now estranged from his family, he must find his own path in life. From London and the south of France to Brazil and the mountains of the Andes. Ben is tossed about in a tumultuous search for his people, a reason for his being. How the world receives him, and, he fares in it will horrify and captivate until the novel's dramatic finale.
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- Seller
- Bookmarc's
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- Seller's Inventory #
- SCW08535
- Title
- Ben, in the World: The Sequel to the Fifth Child
- Author
- Lessing, Doris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060196289
- ISBN 13
- 9780060196288
- Publisher
- HarperColins Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Fiction Literary Literature London England
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Modern Fiction Firsts;
- Size
- 5.75"x8.5"
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