The English Patient
by ONDAATJE, Michael
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679416781
- ISBN 13
- 9780679416784
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1992. The first U.S. edition of this Booker Prize winning novel that went on to become a very popular movie of the same name. A tight, clean unread copy. Tiny remainder mark to bottom edge. 307 pp. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Synopsis
The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Sri Lankan-Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje. The story deals with the gradually revealed histories of a critically burned English man, his Canadian nurse, an Italian thief, and an Indian sapper in the British Army as they live out the end of World War II in an Italian villa. The novel won the Canadian Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize for fiction.
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Details
- Bookseller
- abookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7001359
- Title
- The English Patient
- Author
- ONDAATJE, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679416781
- ISBN 13
- 9780679416784
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- ITALY FICTION HISTORICAL WAR WORLD 1939 1945
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- Books Into Movies; Addbooks01;
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Glossary
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- First Edition
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- Tight
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- Fine
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- Remainder Mark
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