Cockroach
by Hage, Rawi
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0887842097
- ISBN 13
- 9780887842092
- Seller
-
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Toronto: Anansi, 2008. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First printing w/complete number sequence. Award-winner Hage's second book, this one telling the story of an immigrant to Canada, a thief who attempts suicide but is rescued against his will "and obliged to attend sessions with a well-intentioned by naive therapist," soon "leading us back into the narrator's childhood in a war-torn country, forward into his current life in the smoky emigre cafes where everyone has a tale to tell, and out into the frozen streets of the city after dark where the thief survives on the edge." Blue cloth w/silver spine lettering, 305 pages. Light rubbing and a hint of edgewear to dust jacket..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Augustine Funnell Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017515
- Title
- Cockroach
- Author
- Hage, Rawi
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0887842097
- ISBN 13
- 9780887842092
- Publisher
- Anansi
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2008
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- NOISBN, WINTER, MONTREAL, IMMIGRANTS, THERAPY, SUICIDE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Canadian Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Augustine Funnell Books
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About the Seller
Augustine Funnell Books
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Fredericton, New Brunswick
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- Fine
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