Emerald City (Inscribed 1st edition)
by Egan, Jennifer
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As new/As new
- Seller
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Brooklyn, New York, United States
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About This Item
The correct first edition of the author's first book, a collection of short stories, published in the UK two years earlier than her American debut The Invisible Circus, and three years prior to publication of this title in the US. Egan won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad. Beautiful copy, as new in similar dw, INSCRIBED by Egan on the title page.
Synopsis
Jennifer Egan was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. She attended the University of Pennsylvania and St. John's College, Cambridge.She is the author of three novels, The Invisible Circus , Look at Me , which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and The Keep , as well as a collection of stories, Emerald City . She has published short fiction in The New Yorker , Harper's , Zoetrope and Ploughshares , among others, and her journalism appears frequently in The New York Times Magazine . She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was recently a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and sons.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tom Davidson - Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 647
- Title
- Emerald City (Inscribed 1st edition)
- Author
- Egan, Jennifer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As new
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1993
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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