Hamilton Stark
by Banks, Russell
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0395264715
- ISBN 13
- 9780395264713
- Seller
-
Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1978. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0395264715 . DJ shows light edge wear, sun-faded on spine, bottom front fore corner bumped.; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 8.30 X 5.70 X 1.30 inches; 309 pages; "Hamilton Stark is a New Hampshire pipe fitter and the sole inhabitant of the house from which he evicted his own mother. He is the villain of five marriages and the father of a daughter so obsessed that she has been writing a book about him for years. Hamilton Stark is a boor, a misanthrope, a handsome man: funny, passionately honest, and a good dancer. The narrator, a middle-aged writer, decides to write about Stark as a hero whose anger and solitude represent passion and wisdom. At the same time that he tells Hamilton Stark's story, he describes the process of writing the novel and the complicated connections between truth and fiction. As Stark slips in and out of focus, maddeningly elusive and fascinatingly complex, this beguiling novel becomes at once a compelling meditation on identity and a thoroughly engaging story of life on the cold edge of New England." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17309
- Title
- Hamilton Stark
- Author
- Banks, Russell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; Second Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0395264715
- ISBN 13
- 9780395264713
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- 0395264715
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Ainsworth Books
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Chilliwack, British Columbia
About Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
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