Funeral Games - a novel
by Renault, Mary
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine in Brodart.
- ISBN 10
- 0394520688
- ISBN 13
- 9780394520681
- Seller
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Nevada City, California, United States
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About This Item
5-3/4 x 8-1/2, 335 pp, tan map endpapers.
Synopsis
Mary Renault was born in London and educated at Oxford. She then trained for three years as a nurse, and wrote her first published novel, Promise of Love . Her next three novels were written while serving in WWII. After the war, she settled in South Africa and traveled considerably in Africa and Greece. It was at this time that she began writing her brilliant historical reconstructions of ancient Greece, including The King Must Die, The Last of the Wine , and The Persian Boy . She died in Cape Town in 1983.
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- Bookseller
- edburynbooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40560
- Title
- Funeral Games - a novel
- Author
- Renault, Mary
- Format/Binding
- Hardback in maroon/tan boards, in tan illus jaxket.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine/Fine in Brodart.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition stated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394520688
- ISBN 13
- 9780394520681
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
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