BODIES OF WATER
by Cliff, Michelle
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0525248641
- ISBN 13
- 9780525248644
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About This Item
New York: Dutton, 1990. Near fine (a little bit of discoloration at the inside top of the white spine, barely visible) in very good dust jacket (lightly sunned top edge, rubbed). A collection of short stories by this Jamaican writer now living in the United States. All but the first story are actually set in the United States.. 1st American edition. Hard Cover.
Synopsis
Michelle Cliff was born in Jamaica and is the author of three acclaimed novels: Abeng , its sequel, No Telephone to Heaven , and Free Enterprise (Plume). She has also written a collection of short stories, Bodies of Water (Plume), and two poetry collections, The Land of Look Behind and Claiming an Identity They Tought Me to Despise . She is Allan K. Smith Professor of English Language and Literature at Trinity College in Connecticut and divides her time between Hartford, Connecticut, and Santa Cruz, California.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Barbara Bilson Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001834
- Title
- BODIES OF WATER
- Author
- Cliff, Michelle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st American edition
- ISBN 10
- 0525248641
- ISBN 13
- 9780525248644
- Publisher
- Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Jamaica, Short Stories, Black, African American
- Bookseller catalogs
- AFRICAN AMERICAN; FICTION / Short Stories (single author);
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